Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Why Americans Win. [ARTICLE]

Why Americans Win.

One reason why American manufacturers are taking away the trade of Great Britain is shown in the experience of the port commissioners of Calcutta. They decided to purchase nine American railway engines. When it was announced that they would make their purchases in this country, there was a howl from the British manufacturers and the commissioners determined, in self defense, to give the figures to the public. The American company offered the engines at $6,890 each and agreed that they should be delivered within six months; the best British figures were $7,745 for each engine on nine months’ delivery. The American price was 11 per cent lower than .that of the British manufacturers,'and the American engines were promised within twothirds of the time. In the face of this difference, the commissioners point out that they could do nothing else than buy the American engines. The publication

of the figures has nad the dual effect of silencing their critics at home and setting the British manufacture! - to wondering.