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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2002, 11 February 1907, Page 1

OVERSEA TRADE WITH THE WEST OF ENGLAND. REFRIGERATED TRANSIT CHAMBER AT MANCHESTER DOCKS. Wo have received an interesting description of the refrigornted transit clnunber at the Manchester Docks, and the facilities for receiving, sorting, and distributing produce imported from New Zealand and Australia by direct steamers to Manchester : “The Manchester »lup Canal Companv have appropriated a berth at No.*2 Shed, No. 9 Dock, to the steamers pf the Fcdoral-ITouldor-Shiro Line, now running regularly from tho principal Australian and Now Zealand .ports to Manchester. Traffic is discharged direct from ship to railway- ..waggons, carts, and lighters, whilst'''traffic which has to lie sorted or is not intended for immediate distribution is landed into tho spacious four floored ferro-con-crote shed forming part of one < tho largest systems of transit shed accommodation in the world. Frozen produco intended for immediate spatch to interior points is discharged direct from ship to insulated railway waggons lying under cover alongside, thus avoiding exposure or double handling, whilst lo.cal requirements are conveyed from ship’s side in specially prepared carts or railway waggons to cold stores owned by - tho Manchester Corporation or tho Union Cold Storage Company Limited. In order to provent delay to the steamers and deterioration to frozen produco requiring to bo sortod before delivery to railway waggons or carts, the Canal Company have insulated a portion of one of tho floors of tho four-floored transit shed at the discharging berth of the Federnl-Houlder-Sliiro steamers. This refrigerated transit accommodation consists of an Insulated Chamber 123 ft. Gins, long, 99ft. Sins, wide, and 7ft. Gins, high on the first floor, and at tho easterly end of No. 2 Shed ,No. 9 Dock. The Chamber has a capacity of 85,500 cubic feet, and prov ision has been made for further extension whenever required by the trade. In front of the chamber, facing tho dock, a covered verandah lias been provided with tilting platforms, on which the goods arc landed from the vessels by means of tho electric cranes stationed on the quay. There are also movable platforms for dealing with carcases discharged from steamers’ hatches not lying immediately of the regrigerated chamber. There are five loading-in doorways, three at tho front and two at the side, and two loading-out doorways at the hack of the Refrigerated Chamber. Each doorway has a vestibule fitted with curtains to prevent tho escape of cold air during the operation of splitting up the cargo to the marks and numbers of the separate consignees and the intake and the output of the various lots. All the doors are provided with ports for passing single carcases of sheep, boxes of butter and other small par—ls in and out. These ports are rovided with rollers on tho outtle, which clear by a- good margin te bottom of the port and thus the eat is not bruised or chafed whilst ising .through.' The loading-out lorways are provided with electrilly driven hoists capable of lifting I cwt. and discharging direct into .ilway trucks or carts under cover, lie chamber is lined with varnished atcli-boarding, and is lighted by in.ndescent electric lights. It is [uipped with every convenience for mdling, weighing and sorting goods marks, and for delivering to railay waggons or carts, thus ensuring ■ompt despatch and freedom from image, chafing, and bruising. The sulating material employed in the alls, floors, and ceiling of the cliamir is Silicate cotton, and the whole ark has been carried out on the test principles and in accordance ,0 UJ. LUO JJUimUll UIIUUI UllDVim ie refrigeration of the chamber is i the cold air system; it is entirely do from snow, fog, or damp, and 1 superfluous, moisture is removed a supply of cleansed and purified Id air constantly in circulation fbugliout the chamber, which is, erefore, capable of being used for iy class of perishable goods. The achinery, which is arranged in two oins formed over the roadway be--cen shed No. 2 and shed No. 4, in duplicate and of the latest patrn, constructed by the Haslam Sundry and Engineering Company, miteci, of Derby, and consists of o belt-driven horizontal ammonia mpression refrigerating machines, ch having a double acting comessor eight inches in diameter and teen inches stroke, driven by two -horse power semi-enclosed electric ators, of the multipolar type, with nnonia condensed Haslam patent r cooler, direct expansion cooling pcs and centrifugal brine circulatg pumps. Each motor and comessor is capable of maintaining e whole of the chamber at a degree refrigeration necessary for the jrage of frozen meat. The cooling om is provided with two electric Dtors driving tlic brine pumps and r propellers for tho purpose or cirlating the cold air through the amber. Each separate air pr o - illor is of sufficient capacity to iintain a constant circulation of Id air throughout the chamber. In se Of breakdown in any part of the ant there is, therefore, a complete are plant installed in readiness to aintain tho temperature m the amber, and there is no possible sk of goods being damaged through sufficient plant- for controlling the mperatnro to secure any reasonile degree of refrigeration. There e excellent facilities in the city or ancliester for storing frozen proice, the Manchester Corporation iving provided spacious cold stores a central position in the city, itliin easy cartage distanco trom o Manchester docks. These stores rm a valuable adjunct to oxnsive meat markets and abattoirs tho Corporation, a.ml fivo eon " ructcd to accommodate 120,000 carses sheep. The Union Cold fotor;e Company Limited have aho ected a cold store at The Manester docks capable of holding 5,000 carcases. A wharf for large earners, with railway connections, is been provided, so that steamers rrying any considerable quantity frozen produco can bo berthed ongside: The same company also ve a cold store situated in Miller reet, Manchester, with a capacity 80,000 carcases, Manchester is mated in the most densely populr ed area iii tho United Kingdom, id, as a port, is the source of supy for at least 177 interior towns, le district in which these towns arc mated, and which is nearer to the ancliester docks than any other ean steamship port, is 10.U0U uare niles in extent, cintl contains population of over ten million peoo Tho aroa to and from which e ship ca.mil traffic, is now carted ntains a population of over two illions. This enormous population, mprising workpeople who earn gh rates of wages, consumes a very rge quantity ot ail kinds of pioicts, and the supply of these promts can bo more easily and cheaply own from the Manchester docks an from any other part. The ancliester docks, ihoiefoio, ason of their geographical position id their exceptionally good fac - es for handling traffic by rail, ad, and inland canals, have aadv become an unequalled distntii'itz centre for all kinds of proice S The Manchester docks arc uipped with the most modern and mplete appliances, lanes of rail,y P run round every dock and arc rectlv connected with all the trunk ilways through the Manchester ip canal railway system. Tim fac - ies for despatching traffic to ail irts of the country from tlic docks rect by rail give Manchester great [vantages. Not only is there a nsidorahle monetary saving, but e handling of the cargo Is reduced a minimum by .being loaded direct om ship to railway truck when deined for interior towns. Meat, id perishables . especially are kept infinitely better condition by beer despatched direct from the ,cks bv rail instead of having to - carted from ship to railway sta-

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