Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries
År: 1902
Forlag: Cassell and Company, Limited
Sted: London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
Sider: 384
UDK: 338(42) Bri
Illustrated from photographes, etc.
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192
BRITAIN AT WORK.
quarters are received and distributed per
annum, which represents about one-third
of the total grain imports of the Port of
London.
Reference should be macle to the system
of pneumatic grain elevators employed by
this company. They float on barges, and
consist of a vacuum chamber, from which the
air has been partially exhausted by means
of steam engines situated beneath the deck
of the barge. Flexible tubes pass from the
chamber to the ship’s hold, through which a
strong current of air rushes to replace that
driven from the vacuum chamber, and carrying
the grain with it. The latter thence discharges
into a gamer, and feeds a number of weighing
machines, which deliver to barges in sacks
or bulk.
There are forty-eight miles of railway lines,
which connect, via the Millwall Extension
Railway, with the entire railway system of
the United Kingdom. The company possess
1,500 railway waggons and ten locomotives,
three of which are used for the working of
their passenger traffic. About 788,000
passengers are carried annually. During a
recent year 1,337 vessels used the Millwall
Docks, of a gross tonnage of 1,457,375. A
vessel is charged by a dock company according
to the tonnage of its cargo, not of the craft
itself—that is to say, according to the space
occupied by the cargo.
Finally, taking the docks of London
collectively, we arrive at the following remark-
able figures : There are 223,420 feet of quays,
637}^ acres of water, and 694 cranes, der-
ricks, electric travellers, etc., in use.
Some idea of the vastness of Great Britain’s
business with the world may be gathered
from the simple statement of fact that (luring
a recent year vessels of an aggregate tonnage
of 15,400,000 entered to discharge in the
Port of London. The nearest to this was
Liverpool, with 9,500,000 tons ; the third on
the list was Hamburg, with 7,766,000 tons.
It is therefore clear that Great Britain is still
an easy first in the race for commercial
supremacy. H. L Adam.
A DOCK FERRY.
Photo, Catstil ö- Co., Ltd.