LAUNDRIES AT SEA.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 14

LAUNDRIES AT SEA.

The, washing of soiled li&ert, which involves such turmoil and .'fatigue in the ordinary household, is performed so unobtrusively on board a modern steamship as to escape all notice. -Few ocean travellers would be prepared 'to say whe. ther laundry, work is done on board, yet every day ls "wash day'Von 1 a liner at sea, and, both in capacity ..and equipment, a steamship's laundry :of ten excels that serving a provincial town. Space and quiet operation being.: important factors, it is not surprising,to find that electricity is pressed into: service. An electric laundry recently .installed by & British firm on board a well-known liner contains .an electric motor; driving a cashing machine with water-saving tank and hydro-extractor for removing water! by. centrifugal action. ■ In' Addition to 1 soap and Boda dissolving fenks. hand! washtubs for special articles', and a fulli equipment of clothes bins': and acces-j sories, there- ar e a number jof elecf-rie: irons, and a-collar and cuff irfachine \vitbJ electrically-heated roller. 'Me- arrange-; menf of the various marines, ironing boards, and so forth, takes' info consider-' atton the value...of. spaci.ffind. the fact that th e equipment has tosfeeV-kept work-! ing however rough at sea^There is no' outward evidence of the existence of thei laundry. 'Soiled linen its? taken in" at; one door and clean linen-emerges from: the drying-room fifty, feet ■ a-way. Thai , process is just one of those unseen but! essential services which helps to- form) the luxury of modern travel.* 1