BELL-C0LEMAN REFRIGERA TORS. Two Hundred Thousand Pounds Worth of Meat Carried From the Colonies.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 53, 7 June 1884, Page 6

BELL-COLEMAN REFRIGERA TORS. Two Hundred Thousand Pounds Worth of Meat Carried From the Colonies.

Some interesting information respecting the Bell-Coloman refrigerators is contained in the appended letter, which has been received from the manufacturers by Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co., and kindly handed to us for publication :— The letter roads as follows :— •' Sir, —We beg to submit the annexed statement showing list of vessels iitted by us with refrigerators since we started business, which shows that 380 cargoes have beon landed in good condition, and thore have been no breakdowns of the machinery whilst tho vessels have been at sea, or cargoes lost from wunt of freezing power. The only claims that have arisen from break-downs of machinery have beon in tho case of the ship Dunedin and the s.s. Loch Ard, and occurred in both cases whilst freezing meat preparatory to the vessels sailing, and upon which only about £3,000 in all have been paid by underwriters, as only parts of the cargoes were affected, whereas the total value of meat which has arrived by our machinery from the coloniesamountsto about £200,000, i and from America to about £2,900,000.— We are, &c, The Bell-Coleman Mechanical Refrigeration Company." — Appended to the letter is a statement showing that the total amount of dead meat carried from America to England in the Bell-Coleman refrigerators up till February 29th, 1884, was 588,115 quarters of beef and 131,138 carcases of mutton. This comprised a total of 357 cargoes. The vessels fitted with Coleman refrigerators and employed in this trade were the steamships Circassia, Australia, Elysia, Galatea, Devonia, Bolivia, Anchoria, Ethiopia, California, City of Rome, Victoria, Alsatia, Utopia, Belgravia, Arizona, Wyoming, Furnessia, and Loch Ard. A further statement shows the importations of dead meat from Australia and New Zealand to England by the aid of these refrigerators up till February 29, 1884. There have been 23 cargoes in all, comprising 1,161 quarters of beef and 110,006 carcases of mutton. The vessels in this trade fitted with the Bell-Coleraan refrigerators are :— Steamers : Strathleven, Cuzco, Lußitania, Chimborazo, Liguria, Iberia, Potosi, Sorata, Florida, Victory, Abergeldie, and Coptic. Ships : Dunedin, Lady Jocelyn, Lyttelton, Marlborough, Canterbury, Oamaru, Invercargill, Northumberland.