. Journal of electricity . irway to the freezing room. The company operates specially built trucks fordistributing the product in and around Fresno, therebeing twenty of these vehicles in all, part of whichare Walkers and part are General Vehicle Electrics,having a capacity of 300 gallons of ice cream and two tons of ice and salt. Some of these trucks are noth-ing less than refrigerating rooms on wheels, havingbrine circulating pipes so that the compartments, inwhich the ice cream is stored for delivery, are keptcool. The company operates its own charging outfit,using a motor generator set for
. Journal of electricity . irway to the freezing room. The company operates specially built trucks fordistributing the product in and around Fresno, therebeing twenty of these vehicles in all, part of whichare Walkers and part are General Vehicle Electrics,having a capacity of 300 gallons of ice cream and two tons of ice and salt. Some of these trucks are noth-ing less than refrigerating rooms on wheels, havingbrine circulating pipes so that the compartments, inwhich the ice cream is stored for delivery, are keptcool. The company operates its own charging outfit,using a motor generator set for the purpose. The company does not deliver beyond the im-mediate vicinity of the city of Fresno with its owntrucks, but delivers to the auto stage lines and ex-press service systems through a very comprehensiveschedule under which dispatching is carried on prac-tically throughout the entire twenty-four hours; infact, most of the orders come in from the Valleypoints at night. All the ice and salt required for packing is de-. Tanks where the ice cream mixture is made, and held over to is frozen to its final state in a special freezing room. livered with the product, the ice itself being manu-factured in this same plant and crushed by twocrushers having a capacity of twenty tons per concern also distributes cones on a jobbing basis,distributing 2,000,000 of these last year. Besides the fifteen employes required in theoffice and order rooms, as many as ninety-five em-ployes are required in the factory during the sum-mer. The plant contains a 50-hp. steam boiler forsterilizing and heating purposes, and for condensingthe milk surplus. Water is pumped from piivatewells for all uses in the plant. The principal com-pressor is diiven by a 75-hp. motor, and there aretwo small ones diiven by 25-hp. motors. There are34 motors in all, with a total capacity of 226 hp., andthe maximum 15-minute demand to date is 181 of the most novel features is the last electrictruck
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