Hi,
In response to Rick's comment -
The Tavistock Canal used 30ft long iron barges from 1811, these contained
five wooden boxes, each about 4ft square by 3ft deep. The original
intention was to be able to crane them out at the southern end of the canal
and chain them down to railway wagons to be taken down an inclined plane to
the river quays at Morwellham. For some reason, this seems not to have been
continued with (possibly they spilled, or shifted on the wagons), and the
boxes were craned out, their contents upended into tipping wagons, and then
put back in the barges.
This method was certainly in use in the mid-1820s, and may have continued to
the end of the canal's life, c.1869.
Robert Waterhouse
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Subject: Containerised canal transport
The Tavistock Canal was using some form of containerisation - No doubt
Robert Waterhouse could expand.
Rick Stewart
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