Sixty-five Building as Compared with Twenty-one Steam London, July The continued progress of intornal combustion engines is indicated in Lloyd's Shipbuilding Returns for the quarter ending June 30, not only by the fact that 1,500,000 tons 8 were under construc tion in various parts of the world as compared with 1,199,000 tons of steamers, but this construction me eludes 65 motor-ships of 8,000 tons and upwards as compared' with 2t steamers of similar size.
Total construction in British yards at present is 1,208,000 tons, representing a reduction of 298,000 tons as compared with the previous quarter. Britain is now producing 45 por cent, of the world's ships as against 87 per cent. before the War,
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