A GREAT WOOL WAREHOUSE

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1271, 28 October 1911, Page 8

A GREAT WOOL WAREHOUSE

DALGETY'S SYDNEY • PREMISES. Substantial additions to Dnlgety's warehouse at Miller's Point, Sydney, were recently completed, providing for laTgely increased storage accommodation ami extended show floor space, so that even at tho largest sal«s the offerings can bo shown to the utmost: advantage. The firm has received ninny congratulations from Olivers upon the improvements made. 'I'ho warehouse has a capacity for th« ltorago of 75.0C0 bales, with a floor space Xggjcgating 3i)7,509 square feot. Thero are ilix floors, and each lloor is about 12 feet In height. The wool show floor, with its £6,300 square feet, has a capacity for the display of JOOO bales of wool in doublo tows, witn tho regulation five feet space in between for tho buyers to walk and examine tho wool. If shown in. single roys, and giviug five-feet alleyways, 2800 bales can bo shown. All the machinery is in keeping with the magnitude of the store; a horizontal conveyor, flush with tho flco.r, and moving -continuously 280 ft. in one direction, and 1300 ft. at rirat angles in another, traverses tho floor on which the wool is received and woighod in; there are six chutes by which tho bales may bo gravitated to tho lower Hears; four electric elevators, for raising or lowering the bales, inside the building, and ten delivery doors, with two hydraulic lifts and fivo ' hydraulic ■whips outside; five'dumping presses for reducing the bales from 22 to 10 cubic feet; three steel tubes for gravitating the bales on to tho wharf, and 1500 incandescent electric lights, all facilitating tho economic receiving, storing, showing, and shipping of wool. Thero are eight engines in a room, UOtt. and GOf-t., and 30ft. in height, r-ggrcgating 500 hwJo-nower, for the working of the electric and hydiaulc machinery. ■