Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... in an extremely brief period his Gippsland Hop Bitters had hit the public taste, and achieved a name for themselves. The business at Sale increased so rapidly, and the demand for the Bitters spread so widely, that it was soon found necessary to establish a bottling depot in Melbourne. Here again, the growth of the industry was so remarkable that at the present time--in less than one year from the opening of the Melbourne depot--the firm of Thomas Trood and Co., find themselves compelled to build new and extensive premises, a description of which is given further on in this article. A recent visit to the Melbourne establishment confirmed all we had heard of the ever-increasing popularity of the Bitters, and also of the prompt elforts made by the firm to keep pace with the orders pouring in from all quarters. What must now be styled the temporary building, is devoted mainly to the bottling and casing of the Bitters. Here we found rows of clean 60-gallon casks (made by Messrs. Flett and Son, of the Yarra Cooperage), in which the Bitters, manufactured at Sale, are sent down by rail, and bottled oil' into the well-known square bottles. Each cask has a capacity of 40 dozen bottles. The bottling is effected by means of patent' syphon machines, filling four bottles at a time, at the rate of 300 dozen a day, and the corking is also done by machinery. The bottles are then passed over to the labellers, who ornament each with the very handsome label already so familiar to most of us, and bearing the trade mark of the firm, in which Fame, represented by a flying hand, is carrying a bottle of Gippsland Hop Bitters, from which issue HEALTH and PuRITY (in the form of vapour); while the SuN, placed in the back ground, stands as an emblem of Magnificence! Two su...
