Sheffield production of steel ingots and castings during April reached 145,600 tons, 5,300 tons less than the March output, which stands as the highest monthly total on record.
Aggregate output for the first four months of @he year was 570,100 tons, or 48,800 tons more than in the first four months of 1936, which was then a record total.
The continuance of big outputs of steel has been made possible by the satisfactory working of the arrangements made by the British Iron and Steel Federation for the allocation of supplies of melting materials in the form of pig-iron and iron and steel serap.
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