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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26 Midlands and London, and receives from London, Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle. Liverpool's heaviest railages are to London, the North-East Coast, the Midlands, the Eastern Counties south of the Humber, Scotland and North Wales, in addition to Lancashire and Cheshire towns, including Manchester; Manchester supplies are railed to the same destinations. Both Liverpool and Manchester receive supplies from all the other ports. The Bristol Channel ports serve principally the South Wales area, which, however, also receives supplies by rail from Liverpool and London. Southampton sends to London, and also receives from that port. Thus, from London, supplies are railed to all the other ports and, indeed, to almost every part of the country and to Scotland (Glasgow and Edinburgh). In an ideal system of distribution much of this despatching oy rail would be avoided, for the supplies for each area would be shipped to its own port, and the apparent waste of railing meat, say, from Liverpool to London, at the same time that meat of exactly the same kind was being railed from London to Liverpool, would not occur. The persistence of the present system is, however, due in the main to two factors. In the first place, each firm distributes its own meat without reference to the others, and meets its orders from any supplies which it may have available. It is natural, therefore, that cross-railings should occur where so many firms have organisations serving the same area. Secondly, there is the difficulty of arranging regular freight to any but the two chief ports; a shipping company may insist upon a minimum tonnage before a ship is sent to an out-port, and such a minimum may be beyond the local requirements of the importer. It may, therefore, in practice, be cheaper to bring meat to London or Liverpool and then to rail exact requirements to out-port districts than to ship supplies Jirect at the cost of excessive freight. In any event, the perish- able nature of the goods and the uncertain nature of the trade would, at times, dislocate even the most carefully-planned system, though it is difficult to believe that a more efficient and, therefore, economical system of wholesale distribution, based on the various ports, could not be devised to the advantage of all concerned. (¢c) The London Trade—*‘ The wholesale meat trade of London is a trade unto itself and has no counterpart, even for comparative purposes, in this or any other country.”* The trade is grouped around Smithfield Market, which is not only the centre of the imported meat trade in this country, but is the greatest dead-meat market in the world. Table IV, p. 61, shows the quantities of meat of all kinds handled at the market, during 1924, from various sources of supply, including Great Britain and Ireland. The market is the property of the Cor- poration of the City of London, from which the stallholders hold # Appendix I., “Report of Departmental Committee on Wholesale Food Markets of London.” Cmd. 1341. 1921

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