Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Petroleum-Storage Installations at Avonmouth and at Cardiff [1890] . . . .

The main and branch air-pipes are fitted with valves at G G G, for the purpose of shutting off either the whole or any one of the nests. Similarly steam is taken from the boiler through the pipe H into the main steam-pipe O, from which it passes into the branches P P P, leading into the branches C C C of the air-pipes. A set of barrels is taken from the empty stock and rolled onto wooden carriages with the bung-holes over the branches E E E.

The main steam-valve Q and the branch valves are opened, and the steam passes along C, D and E into all the barrels for ten to fifteen minutes. It is then shut off at Q, and the main hot-air valve F and its branch valves opened, the blower set to work, so as to drive hot air through the same branches C, D, E, until the barrels are perfectly dry, after which they are rolled into the cooperage for any necessary repairs.

Unfortunately, I only have the plan for Plate 8, Figures 14 to 22 inclusive, hence, references to other plates and figures is not possible!

	c.1932 - An ariel view of the Petroleum Oil Installation at the Penarth Tidal Harbour.
	1890-91 - Part of the plan of the Petroleum Oil Installation at Avonmouth and Cardiff as included within the Institution of Civil Engineers report.