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

The Public Wharf Company have erected upon this tongue of land extensive wharves and warehouses, which are fitted in the most complete manner with hydraulic cranes, grain-warehouses, cellars, &c. The site possesses several hundred yards of deep-water frontage to the Ely, and good railway communication.

The petroleum installation is situated at the southern end of the site. It is enclosed by an embankment of earthwork similar to that at Avonmouth.

Storage Department

From the wharf, at the point A on the plan (Fig. 22), a cast iron 7-inch filling-pipe is laid to the storage department with branches to the five tanks, three of which hold nearly 1,300 tons each, and the two others about 1,000 tons each.

The branches from the main filling-pipe are of copper, and are bent up in a saddle-back form to allow for expansion.