Egyptian Contract For British Firm
WORK OF SOME MAGNITUDE (British Official Wireless.) Received Sunday, 7 p.m. RUGBY, Feb. 12. A British engineering firm, Messrs Ransomes and Rapier, of Ipswich, has secured from tho Egyptian Government a £210,000 contract for the construction of sluice gates on the new Mohammad Aly barrage, which is being built at a cost of £2, 250,000, at the junction of the Nile, north of Cairo. Ninetyfour pairs of sluice gates and six ■ power-operated machines of special design for use with tho gates are to be built. The work will extend fiver three years and begin within the next few months.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 6
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104Egyptian Contract For British Firm Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 6
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