10 FEBRUARY 1939, page 40

Finance And Investment

THIS is railway week in the City, and so far the news has been good. Good, that is, in relation to our very chastened expectations. Nobody expected, in the light of the......

English Electric Profits

It is good to see the English Electric Company, an old favourite of these notes, fully justifying my hopeful fore- casts. The dividend, it is true, is being left at the 10 per......

L.m.s. Expenditure

Where the Southern has led Euston has not lagged far be- hind. L.M.S. 4 per cent. First Preference and the 5 per cent. Redeemable Preference stocks are, after all, to have their......

The Gold Write-up

I do not know whose hand one should detect in the new Currency and Bank Notes Bill, but clearly there is no lack of ingenuity in Whitehall and Threadneedle Street. The decision......

Thomas Tilling's Progress

Once again Thomas Tilling, Ltd., the road transport com- bine, justifies its right to be included among the select band of companies which break records with extraordinary regu-......