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handling required to move such considerable quantities of |
liquids is done, so to speak, without even realizing it, by four |
workers.
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The temperature of the cellars is maintained at a constant |
level during the winter by means of steam pipes with fins. |
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From the cellars we climb to the workshop for packing |
barrels and carboys; both are covered with fir tree straw |
packing, in order to avoid, as far as possible, accidents en |
route; leads and wax seals, with the mark of the house, protect |
them from subtractions in the course of transport. |
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All transit between the workshops, the docks and the |
stores is accomplished using small Decauville railroads; manual |
labor is reduced to a minimum; therefore the impression with |
which one is left after having toured the vast factory is |
astonishment at how so few personnel can do so many things. |
All the same, the establishment employs a hundred and |
seventy workmen, including eighty women, not counting the |
coopers and woodworkers who work outdoors. |
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Ever since the cases have been supplied by a contractor |
exclusively occupied with their fabrication, there has been a |
workshop dependent on the factory; there sophisticated tools |
plane wood, cut it to size, cut the dovetails, groove the lids, nail |
the bottoms, etc; this workshop employs 30 workmen who |
deliver a hundred cases per hour; it is set up in a building |
formerly used as a paper mill and it excites a keen interest in |
all visitors to the Pernod factory.
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(Translated by "Artemis" for your pleasure.) |