ENGINES AND SHIPS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 12

ENGINES AND SHIPS

OEDERS FOR BRITAIN

RECEIVED FROM OVERSEAS

'' Notwithstanding depressing accounts o£ •British industries, engineers and shipbuilders in Great Britain seem to be getting the business. Omitting reference to orders placed in the United Kingdom by .British railway and shipping companies' ■organisations, contracts secured during October, one month only, on overseas "Government and other account are con.siderable and should help to mitigate effects of unemployment. The contracts '.signed, for the month of October, as reported by the Department of Overseas ■Trade and advised to the British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, include the following:— Central Argentine Railways, 45 locomotive boilers. Sao Paulo Brazilian Railways, six tank 'locos. ' - . Nizam's State Railways, 10 loco boilers. South Indian Railways, 12 loco, boilers, loco, balancing table, and laminated -springs. Nigerian Railway, two Beyer-Garratt locos. • . Rhodesian Railways, six locomotives. Hong Kong, three locos, and tenders. Central African Railroads, ten all-steel bogie waggons. "'•* Buenos Aires Central Railroad and Terminal. Co., equipment for new underground railway, 56 motor coaches, an ■ ov&er worth £250,000, and Welsh coal supplies of 500,000 tons. • . - Egyptian State Railways, 20 side tank locos., 19,000 tons steel rails, telephone ■cables, and other railway equipment. Bombay-Baroda and Central Indian .Railways, electric re-signalling installation for Bombay Central Station; also side crane installations.

South African Railways and Harbours, cast' iron bases for telegraphic system.

BRIDGES AND ROADS.

Kenya and Uganda Railways, new steel bridge to cross the Nile at Jinja (Lake victoria).

Johannesburg Central Railway Station, complete electric signalling system. Roumanian Government, contract for construction of road 120 miles long, at approximately '£1,000,000. New Zealand Post and Telegraphs, 60 miles telephone cable, electric armoured cables, copper wire supplies, insulators, and copper cable sleeves.

Portuguese East Africa, electric portable cranes*

Indian Government, two hundred sixwheeled three-ton motor vehicles, 40 sixwheeled 30cwt motor vehicles.

Australian Cement Company, large rotary kiln, combination mill, and auxiliary equipment.

Extension and remodelling of Polish •wireless system, stations at "Warsaw (120kw) and Lemburg (16kw) and Vitna (16kw) and local relay stations; contract exceeds £200,000. Indian Cotton Mill, at Heera, province of Ujjain, of 35,000 spindles, 1000 looms first instalment, ultimately 55,000 spindles and 1500 looms, with electric rope drive motive power, and high pressure water tube boilers^all to be made in the United Kingdom.

New Zealand, Auckland, Power Board! 13 miles of 22,000 volt cable.

Iceland Government, contract for construction of high-powered wireless station,

'• Anglo-Belgian Cable Company, orders for 75 miles of cable. , Turkish Government, repeat orders for fleet of motor-cycles for special service.

VALUABLE AMERICAN ORDER.

W. W. Kellog Co., Jersey City, United States, sixteen high-grade steel reaction chambers, each of 50 tons, to be supplied by English manufacturers and intended for petroleum treatment. .A' note to this order from the ( United States reads: "They are the first orders of that type to come to this country, and have been secured in the face of keen competition from Germany, whose manufacturers have held a virtual monopoly in products of this character. The orders will supply about five months' employment for some hundreds of men." • *

Morocco, lenses, domes, and other equipment for service as road signs on TetuanTangier and-Ceuta-Tetuan roads.

Egypt, electric installations for Ministry of the Interior at Kena and Fashn.

Lisbon, waterworks pipes and fittings, £31,000 contract.

Egyptian State Railways, 19,000 tons steel rails.

Finland and Belgian State Railways, steam, coal supplies aggregating 202,000 tons; and P.L.M. Railways of France, 500,----000 tons, and other railway companies in France 500,000 tons Welsh coal, or 1,000,000 tons in all.

Stockholm, gasworks, big coal contracts,

NEW WHALERS,

The Sydhav Whaling Company have placed a. contract for a Diesel-engined tankship of 11,300 tons dead weight with Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, of Wallsend. The Vestfold Whaling Com-pany-has-placed a contract for a similar ship of 9400 tons dead weight with Barclay Curie, of Glasgow. Both vessels are to be delivered in November, 1930.

Orders for several oil tankers are reported to have been placed with shipbuilders on the Tyne, Wear, and Tees and in Scotland on behalf of Scandinavian owners, which will represent a large amount of/work. A representative of Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson recently stated that his firm has within the past few weeks, secured several important orders for oil tankers for Norwegian firms. Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., of Walker-on-Tyne has booked orders for six tankers for Norwegian owners since July. One of the vessels booked recently by Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co. will be a motor-tanker of 8800 tons dead weight, ordered by Biorn Biornstad and Co., Oslo, for a new company, the Skipsaktieselskap Beaulieu.

NEW OIL TANKERS.

Harland. and Wolff, Ltd., latest contract is to build for Continental owners six flrßt-class steam-driven cargo vessels of 10,000 tons each. The order has given great satisfaction in Belfast, as the construction of the sis vessels, together with other work in hand, will ensure considerable employment during the winter. Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, TJtd., Dundee, has contracted to build for Aktiebolaget Gotaverken, shipbuilders, Gothenburg, Sweden, hulls of three twin screw motor oil tankers, each to carry about 11,400 tons. The vessels will be owned by a new company-r-Kede-raktiebolaget 'Alse, of Malmo. Alexander Stephen and Sons, Linthouse, Glasgow, are to build two twin-screw mo-tor-ships for the New Zealand Shipping Company. An order for a third vessel for the same owners haß been placed with "Vickers-Armstrong, to be engined by Doxfords.

Other shipbuilding contracts include two steamers, 3200 tons dead weight for Norwegian owners; a motor tanker, 9000 tons, also 3120 h.p. for Norwegian owners, to cost £145,000; a twin-screw steamer, for Howard, Smith's, Australia; a cargo steamer, 7400 tons, for Greek owners; a motor tanker,. 8800 tons, for Norwegian owners, to cost £168,200; two' motortankera.for Norwegian owners, 9000 tons, to .cost £140,000 each, engines to be built by Doxfords; a twin-screw motor-tanker for Australian owners," to be engined in Holland; two oil tankers, each 250 ft in length, for Imperial Oil Company, Toronto, Canada.

•Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, have obtained engineering orders valued at about' £750,000. These include eight sets of ArmstrongSulzer internal-combustion engines, each of about 2300 h.p.; two sets of twin-screw reciprocating engines for oil tankers now under- construction for the Chilian Government, a. twin-screw reciprocating set for a large whaling vessel, and machinery for a number of ships for British owners and for Brazil.

Altogether business reported as secured by British engineers, electrical firms, and shipbuilders during the month of October makes an important showing and should materially help to reduce unemployment among skilled and unskilled workers in the