Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-12-26 | Page 3 | Glass Bottles, Big as Box Cars, Ready to Transport Beer

Glass Bottles Big BigAs As S Box Cars Ready To Transport Beer it Second Coming 0 of f L Legal egal No Problem to Ship- Ship J I F pers Cap Capacities cities Large Larget f t By LATHROP MACK r CK Sr Press Staff Writer r CHICAGO Dee 26 Beer 26 Beer may travel in gloss glass bottles bottIes as large as box cars caTS when and if It it is legalized r 1 r Transportation elegance such as the prewar prewar pr product never ne knew has been arranged by manufacturers of railroad railroad rail rail- road equipment against the second coming of legal beer I f I Cars carrying two gallon in in- tanks constructed of steel and lined Jibed with glass are ready to carr carry beer from brewers to buyers all over the country at low temperatures un un- under der uniform pressure and much cheaper than in the kegs and cases cf Of former years the tank car makers laT py The t-The bulk contents of or each car w W would uld become pints when bot hot tied at its destination in plants which will cost from to to toc c instruct construct This work made necessary necessary sary utY by national distribution of beer which was never possible heretofore is ii expected by proponents of the Idea to be one of the industry's great- great ut tat opportunities to relieve unemployment ment SHIPPING LEARNED Only during the last decade have carriers learned to transport chilled beverages at starting temperatures s. s During the Miami hurricane of 1928 Wisconsin milk was shipped to relieve re re- re- re lieve Veve the shortage in Florida t There are milk cars all made b by the General American Tank Car corporation on the principle expected to lobe tobe be used for beer in operation on American railroads The same firm his has hi applied the milk car plan to a which transports beer taken between a London Ontario brewery brewer and Montreal making the mile 1000 round trip every five days r But Raymond J. J Pierce vice president president dent of the corporation who has just completed a six-month six survey of the brewing industry's shipping needs in event of l legal beer does docs not expect Jj an in immediate wide demand for bulk be beer r ca cars care rf Within a few years of or legalization tim tion 1 of beer beel we will manufacture ears cars for the industry Pierce said Within eight years of that time there will be only half a dozen brewers competing for national distribution After that we probably will need many m more rei cars COMP COMPETING TING POINTS St Louis will compete with New NewYork NewYork NewYork York brewers for the New York maret market mar mar- k ket et t. t Milwaukee brewers will ship through St. St Louis in competition with St St. StLouis Louis brewers for the southwest trade Tank cars will wUl reduce shipping cents to 47 cents a gallon between St. St Louis and Jersey City as c compared with the present rate of cents cents' a plOD gallon for kegs of beverages s and 1681 cents tints in cases cases I F Pierce Fierce said sald the lower cost costin in in tank ears cars rs would bring additional tonnage to the tho railroads by increasing the radius of beer beel shipments The tanks will eliminate bottle breakage a huge factor in the old days he said Empty bottles and kegs had to be returned It was a slow expensive process They will cut down the size of breweries breweries' invest invert meats ments w