another conveyor from which they arc piled in v a r y i n g amounts. A small fork-lift truck lifts blocks of filled or empty cases by means of a special "pallet" and deposits them in stockpiles or waiting trucks. Also located * on the ground floor are large store rooms where advertising, signs, coolers, etc., are kept. Guests received first-hand eviThe plant houses its own gardence during the inspection of age where all repairs and paint the building and its operations, jobs are done on the Jarge fleet of Coca-Cola Ltd.'s proud boast of trucks by company iaechanics. that it sterilizes its bottles, and Here,; too, is the spacious boiler j1 fills and seals them airtight room which . contains the oil"without the touch of human heating plant, air compressors, etc. hands.'* From .the well-appointed secCleanliness is the first word of bnd^floor with its manager's ofthe company and ground floors fice, general office, sales office, Sterilization of bottles is an are swept and scrubbed metictisales conference room, sales lock- important sly by large electric sweepers part of the plant's op_, er rooms, rest~rooms~and stain- erations. Every bottle is thor- and^scrubbers. less steel syrup storage tank, to oughly^ inspected after sterilizathe-ground floor, where steriliz- tion before passing to the filling "Open House" for Public : ation,,, bottling, storage and de- department. They undergo a _ wv "Open* House".for the ^*,**,. public 1V»,~1__1*J._ · _ « . *^ liveries operations are carried pre-rinse h) 85-degree water, will be held tonight and Wednesout, they were taken by well-in- Then follow* four solution washes day night between_1.30 and 10.00. formed company representatives, in varying temperatures in sen- ^^3^°^ is cordially invited, I who explained every phase of thej arate compartments. The final Manager Aubrey Coe today · "modus operand!" of the plant. tribute ;to Mrs. John 'Lewis rinse sees water force^Mnfo and The over-all decor of the around the bottles by compressed ^ of£lc j rib building is done in an attractive air. -!! fj k°n" and its intricate OWS also shade of light^ blending greens. Then on to an unending con- * *J? " "' to Mrs. Alfred Fluorescent lighting, mastic tile veyor belt to the filling room Woodhouse and her stafB of ...the flooring" a n d m o d e r n furniture where they receive the quota of ~Jir^e _^lu^» wn.o catered to the are apparent in the second-floor syrup and carbonated water. administrative departments. The From here to the mechanical caplocker and rest rooms for .the per and to a "whirler" , which staff are spacious, airy and well- gives- the ingredients a thorough equipped. The ladies' powder .room has richly upholstered From here bottles are conveychairs and chesterfields, while ed to the casing department the staff lunch-room is equipped where .a ~l'case-packerI1L_f ills the,, with individual tables. wooden cases with mechanical to Among the Coca-Cola Ltd.. offlclals present were Mr. Claud Duncan, chairman of the board, Toronto; Mr. R. W. Keast, vice-president; J. D. Singlehurst, regional manager, Ottawa; J. J.Coliins, Ottawa; Clark Murkar, Peterborough branch manager; George Morton, Kingston branch manager; L. McKee, assistant sales manager, Ottawa; Gil Haganwald, manager, 'Ottawa; Alderman J. McAuley, of the Ottawa city council was also present. Mr. Coe and company officials entertained their guests at afternoon "tea" with the well-known product of the company replacing the "cup that cheers" in the spaicious sales rooms on the second 'floor of the building. First-Hand Evidence Red Brick Construction The building proper is constructed of red brick with the ground floor having an armori cote surface.. The bottling room is of imported Welsh quarry tile in a terra cotta shade. Locker and washroom floors are of ceramic tile construction with walls of glazed tile. A special point of interest was the huge stainless steel tank on the ground floor in which the syrup is made and sent to the upstairs storage tank, thence to the filler via the gravity method. BoUle,jcaps,are alSQjchuted from the second floor. Regardless of condition or classification of water the various bottling 'centres provide, CocaCola Ltd. has its own special methods of purification and sterilization. Besides being filtered through a ^sand and gravel system, the water is also subjected to a special filtration treatment called "Hydrodarco." \ Sterilization Important I 0 Atari' or Ta/v 37/53