LONDONERS’ DAILY BREAD

Evening Star, Issue 20194, 6 June 1929, Page 1

LONDONERS’ DAILY BREAD

Londoners are. hungry folk, if their appetites can he judged by their consumption of bread. More than 24,375,000 half-quartern loaves are required weekly to satisfy their needs, and if their daily ration was all baked in the form of sandwich loaves the total length would stretch for 600 miles. Of the big ships which take the grain to London many berth in the Royal Victoria and Surrey Commercial docks, where can he congregated floating pneumatic and bucket elevators with a, capacity of 2,500 tons an hour. At those two clocks alone there is storage accommodation tor 26,000 tons of grain. The Central Granary is by the quayside, and the vessels, with their holds full of loose grain, berth hard by. Hanging down, with their ends buried in the golden mass, are a number of pneumatic tubes. Powerful electrical machinery provides the power, and sucks 500 tons of grain an hour from the holds. Just a little more than a week's supply can be stored at the granary—24,ooo tons, to be exact.