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Volume Thirteen - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - even more aspects - Articles from the Great Western Railway Magazine - 1922 - 1948 . . . .

The following was published within the January 1927 edition of the Great Western Railway Magazine [1348] [1349] : -

Docks Department - New Cargo at Penarth Dock — s.s. Inverawe arrived at Penarth Dock, on June 9, with a cargo of esparto grass from Oran. This is the first cargo of such material to arrive at Penarth Dock for over 30 years, and begins a regular importation, which is to develop a new process of paper-making at the Ely Paper Works, being in addition to the traffic in wood-pulp, which has been used in this manufacture for very many years past.

The first cargo of esparto grass for 30 years, being discharged at Penarth Dock.
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