§ 14. Mr. Wingfield Digbyasked the Minister of Technology, what is the present total of the order book for British shipyards; and what proportion of this is for warships or other sophisticated ships with high labour content.
§ Mr. Fowler£570 million at 31st August of which 52 per cent. was for warships, including submarines, and sophisticated merchant vessels, but these figures exaggerate the importance of sophisticated work in the order book.
§ Mr. Leadbitterasked the Minister of Technology, what shipbuilding yards in the United Kingdom are building bulk carriers and tankers; and what is the state of their order books and the value of present shipbuilding in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. FowlerThe yards listed below had orders at 31st August for bulk carriers or tankers ranging from 100 gross tons upwards. These yards' total order book for merchant ships is estimated at £275 million out of a nestimated total for all United Kingdom yards of £310 million:
- Austin and Pickersgill.
- Cammell Laird.
- Clelands.
- Cochrane.
- Doxford (Laing).
- Doxford (Thompson).
- Drypool.
- Dunston (Hessle).
- Furness.
- Goole.
- Harker.
- Holmes.
4 - Smiths Dock.
- S.H. (Hebburn).
- S.H. (Readhead).
- S.H. (Wallsend).
- S.H. (Naval Yard Walker).
- Harland and Wolff (Belfast).
- Hall Russell.
- Lithgows.
- Robb.
- Scotts (Cartsburn).
- Scotts (Cartsdyke).
- Upper Clyde (Clydebank).
- Upper Clyde (Scotstoun).
- Upper Clyde (Govan).