Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you, sir. (Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from Meridith Taylor with Barclays Capital. Please go ahead.
Meridith Taylor - Barclays Capital
Hi, good morning. First I'm wondering if you can talk a little bit about the crane orders. Clearly you talked about a positive swing in net orders. Could you talk a little bit about what the gross orders might have been, how much the swing had -- for the factor their. And then maybe if you could dig a little bit into what you're seeing on an end market-by-end market basis and expectations going forward?
Glen Tellock
I have one question, do you say that we have seen growth orders?
Meridith Taylor - Barclays Capital
In that gross order, sorry. So taking growth order as suppose to net, which includes cancellations.
Glen Tellock
Sure. Go ahead.
Carl Laurino
The gross orders for us in the quarter were $115 million.
Meridith Taylor - Barclays Capital
Okay. And then how would this compare with the last two quarters. I realize that cancellations were a big swing factor last quarter?
Glen Tellock
It's pretty comparable. I think we are seeing a net -- what we talk about the stabilization of it's really the -- that is the cancellations in the November, December timeframe and actually in the January, February. I think when you look at some of it, I would put a little bit of that in early part of this year, the North American dealer network. That was -- there, the opportunity that confirmed their orders and that was late in the quarter. So, I think when you see that it's actually, it's encouraging, it's certainly not good but, I think it's encouraging to get to that net positive outflow.
Meridith Taylor - Barclays Capital
Okay. And then just any color on an end market-by end market basis?
Glen Tellock
Well. I think that if you just look at the product lines by themselves, the tower cranes are probably the hardest yet. And that's the three biggest markets there, France, Spain, Italy very difficult markets. There is the high end of all the products on the large tower cranes. The large Crawler cranes and the larger cranes (ph) continue to hold pretty well. I think you've seen that.
And as we talked about and in Carl's comments, I think we are seeing some positive signs coming out of China, with some other stimulus packages they've had and I think you've seen a little bit of that in South America. That's the probably the two bright spots you see around the world. But other than I think it's pretty similar to the rest of product lines.
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