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Whisky in Bulk an Unqualified Success

7th August 1953, Page 52
7th August 1953
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Page 52, 7th August 1953 — Whisky in Bulk an Unqualified Success
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Doi the bulk haulage of whisky in 1-1 2,000-gallon tankers in place of rail transport, W. and A. Gilbey, Ltd., have reduced the time taken for deliveries of export consignments from the blending warehouse in Aberdeen to a bottling warehouse in Edinburgh from over five days to 24 hours.

This is a typical operational run by the haulage contractors, James Paterson and Co., Ltd., who operate the vehicles for the company. The sterling value of each cargo is about 05,000.

Two vehicles are employed of the type described in The Commercial Motor on December 19, 1952. The tanks were. built by A.P.V., Ltd., of stainless steel, fabricated by the Argonarc welding process, and are

c 16 mounted on Albion 1-1.D.55 chassis powered by 9.9-litre oil engines developing 120 b.h.p. at 1,700 r.p.m.

A tanker is in readiness at the Aberdeen blending warehouse at 8 a.m. and is filled from a dump trough in about 90 minutes, the operation including agitation of the contents by compressed air and testing with a hydrometer. The vehicle is driven at a maximum speed of 20 m.p.h. to the Edinburgh bottling warehouse, where it is garaged and is ready for unloading at 8 a.m. the following day.

After checks of the volume and strength of the spirit have been made by a Customs officer, it is pumped into a wood bottling tank. This takes about 40 minutes and the tanker starts on the return journey at 9.30 a.m., reachit Aberdeen the same evening, On the way, the vehicle calls at 01 of the company's grain distilleries and loaded with 1,800-2,000 gallons of gra whisky from 105-gallon casks. Ea< cask is emptied by means of a pun in two minutes.

Besides the valuable saving in tin and the certainty of delivery, the rent] of empty casks by rail has be obviated. Rush export orders can expedited and pilferage is impossible Although operational experience is ; yet limited, use of the tankers has bet proved an unqualified success. The introduction may well lead to ti adoption of a more general scheme f( the bulk transport of whisky.

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Locations: Edinburgh, Aberdeen

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