sentences:  The company suffered resulting from the economic situation but also from increased competition from other manufacturers.The depression caused many orders for equipment worn out during the war to be cancelled, to compound this there was a glut of secondhand engines which had been produced for war use that were being sold cheaply to Showman and Haulage Contractors, two of the company's key markets.For a time the workforce at the St Nicholas Works was reduced to a four-day week.