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PACKING AND DISPATCH 

The belt conveyor
connecting warehouse and packing house

We have come to the end of our manufacturing process, and it remains only to look into the question of the packing and dispatch of the goods produced. Realising as we do that it is of little use to take an infinity of pains in the making of our wares if they are to be broken before they reach their destination, we do everything possible to ensure their safe and sound delivery. Our dispatch conveyor system reduces almost to vanishing point the risk of their being damaged during handling in the Works, and the soundness of our methods of packing is abundantly established by the fact that transit breakages, whether in home deliveries or in overseas shipments, are practically negligible. 

 

Loading lorry from the belt conveyor

Most of our products for the home market are packed in cartons and delivered to their destination by our fleet of lorries. Export goods, in strong skeleton crates, are taken by lorry to their port of departure and placed alongside the steamers in whose holds they are to cross the seas. In the great majority of cases they leave from Liverpool or Birkenhead, to be conveyed thence to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, India, Hong Kong – to every corner of the British Empire, in fact – as well as to South and Central America, the West Indies, and every other country where trading and tariff conditions are such as to permit of their entry. 

 

Main export packing house

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From: "A Century of Progress 1837-1937" a publication to commemorate The Centenary of Richards Tiles Ltd.