London, Apr, 2.
The two leading British armaments makers, Messrs. Vickers-Armstrong und Hadfields, published their annual reports in the press to-day.
Vickers-Armstrong returns an amount of £763,171 as paid in dividends, this being £100,000 more than in 1936. The report states that the firm was so busy that it was unable to accept any foreign orders.
The final dividend of the leading English steel and armaments firm, Hadfields, was fixed at 22.5 per cent.. the net profit for 1937 being about £260,000 or £50,000 more than in 1936,—Trans-Ocean.
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