Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Green's Great Lakes Directory, 1942, p. 17

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COAL INSPECTION, SAMPLING, AND ANALYSIS Protect Your Lake Shipments Through Our Dependable Service COAL SAMPLING COAL ANALYSIS Modern methods used in gathering and preparing representative Accurate analyses are made, including the Proximate determinations, samples from individual cars. This includes the use of power driven Fusion Temperature of Ash, By-Product Tests, Ultimate Analyses, crushers and sample splitters. Our entire procedure conforms to Grindability, Screen Tests, etc. A.S.T.M. Standards. VISUAL INSPECTION Preliminary inspection of each car in railroad holding yards for the General inspection at Docks: following: Checking hold of boat for cleanliness. Checking empty cars for com- To ascertain whether or not coal is of proper size and preparation. plete removal of coal. Listing of cars as loaded into vessel, and Checking for shortages due to leakage, and the removal of foreign actual tonnage loaded. Supervising of loading prepared sizes into materials from tops of cars. boat to insure minimum breakage. MARINE SERVICE Inspection and checking quality of vessel fuel loaded into bunkers. Combustion surveys to determine the possibility of fuel economy. Boiler efficiency tests. Complete reports on boiler room performance. In the past 18 years our Great Lakes Department, with headquarters Erie and Lake Ontario ports from Toledo to Oswego, N. Y. During at Toledo, Ohio, has serviced for the Lake Buyers and Sellers over the 1941 Lake Season one or more of the above services was applied 66,000,000 tons of "cargo coal" passing through the various Lake to over 1800 cargoes of coal. Our RELIABLE and DEPENDABLE service is ava_lable at all hours--DAY and NIGHT COMMERCIAL TESTING & ENGINEERING COMPANY 1118 Madison Avenue, Toledo, Ohio CHARLESTON, WEST VA. Toledo Telephones: Main 7161 Night: Kingswood 3146--Lawndale 4129 . DETROIT, MICH. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS i See a aes ta ka ile eae 17 ne f

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