A Boston (U.S.A.) merchant named Tudor is credited with inaugurating the ice trade in the summer of 1805, when he began to ship ice from Labrador to the West Indies. Very soon New York and other American cities claimed supplies. In 1839 enterprising American skippers began to ship ice to India, gainin<r a monopoly maintained until the invention of refrigerating machinery. The first cargo of ice brought to TJritain arrived in London docks from Norway In 1822. It was allowed to melt while Customs authorities wrangled over duty. and the experiment does not seem to have been repeated until decades later.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 13
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