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

A large steam-jacketed glue-kettle is arranged as shown in Figs. 12 and 13, Plate. The repaired barrels receive a charge of hot glue, and are rolled along carriages over zinc-lined troughs, laid below the floor-level, and stored over them with the bung-hole down. The surplus glue is pumped back to the glue-kettle (Fig. 12).

After this the barrels are lifted on to the floor above by the elevator D (Fig. 12), which is worked by a small separate engine ; there they receive a coat of paint, and are then ready for sending down the run to the filling house.

The painting is done with large flat brushes, with such expedition that a skilled man is said to be able to paint fifteen hundred barrels per day. The boiler and steaming and drying plant were supplied by the Uskside Engineering Company, Newport, Mon..

Filling or Barreling-Off Department

Filling or Barreling-Off Department - This department is situated at a point near the jetty (see general plan, Fig. 1, Plate 7), and consists of a simple brick building about 46 feet by 32 feet (Figs. 16, 17, 18 and 19, Plate 8).