Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

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Identifikator:: 1800540760

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-185131

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: vi, 65 Seiten; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. The trade in Great Britain

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operate depdts or stalls indirectly through English registered companies. On the other hand, two English firms, namely, Messrs. Borthwick and the Union Cold Storage group, and one American firm, Messrs. Swift, each of which has its own distribu- tive organisation in this country, also own meat works in the Dominions; the main operations of the two latter are. of course. sentred in South America. On the whole, therefore, it can be said that the South American trade embraces the wholesaling of the product, while the Dominion trade touches wholesaling only to a very limited extent and confines itself, in the main, to representation in the chief ports and to selling to the wholesale trade. In many towns, various wholesale meat-traders, not connected with the importing organisations, have stalls or shops and buy from the importers or, at times, direct from the overseas source of supply, which is usually the Dominions for this class of trade. Here and there, retail butchers are banded together in a loose form of wholesale buying association and, through their repre- sentatives, they purchase direct ex-ship, or even c.if., though this latter is risky and may, at times. strain collective-buying to the breaking point. Before a ship arrives at a port, its cargo is allocated and arrangements made to ensure its quick dispatch by rail or road to the points where it is required. Frozen goods not required for immediate sale are placed in cold store at the port or trans- ported to a cold store in a centre convenient for subsequent distribution ; chilled beef is always sent direct ex-ship to depots for prompt sale. In wholesale meat distribution, the motor lorry, with trailer-van, is playing an increasingly important part because of its suitability for rapid point-to-point distribution of supplies. Most of the imported meat used in South Coast towns, for example, is now sent down by road over-night from London ; similarly, the towns in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire and North Wales and, occasionally, towns as far distant as Hull, Middlesbrough and Newcastle, are served by road from the ports of Liverpool and Manchester. For long journeys, insulated railway meat-vans are used; in hot weather the temperature is kept low by ice.* Chilled beef is necessarily distributed over a more restricted area, and those districts remote from ports which cannot be reached in a few hours by rail are usually supplied with the frozen variety. The travelling salesmen operating from the various depOts are acquainted with particulars of the goods coming forward and with the time of arrival of the ship; it is their business to collect orders from the retail trade. These orders are grouped and, if the retail customers are outside the range of the motor lorry, the goods are dispatched to the traders’ rallwav station bv meat-van which is frequently attached to a * See, however, paragraph 51, ¢ Report of Inter-Departmental Com- mittee on Meat Supplies.” Cmd. 456. 1919.

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