FIRST DIRECT SHIPMENT OF MEAT FROM SYDNEY.
The Orient Company’s steamship Cuzco takes to London the first direct regular shipment of meat from Sydney. The shipment is placed in the refrigerating department will comprise some 150 tons of genuine Australian beef and mutton. The freezing chamber on board the Cuzco is sixty-eight feet long by forty-six feet broad, and six feet high, and will hold 160 tons of meat when full. The process is the Bell-Coleman, and the working of the necessary engines will consume three tons of coal per day. The air is cooled by the sudden expansion of the compressed air, which reduces the temperature to 70deg. below zero, and the air thus cooled is conducted by pipes to the centre of the refrigerating chamber, the warm air being returned to the machine bv pipes on the sides of the vessel. The meat is first frozen at Orange, then conveyed in close trucks by rail to Sydney, and placed on board with all desnatch. The Cuzco left Sydney for Plymouth via Melbourne and Adelaide on July 20.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 964, 27 July 1881, Page 3
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179FIRST DIRECT SHIPMENT OF MEAT FROM SYDNEY. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 964, 27 July 1881, Page 3
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