A Gasoline Field Kitchen
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A Gasoline Field Kitchen
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A Gasoline Field Kitchen
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AMONG the useful and interesting
devices of which the origin is di-
rectly traceable to the war, the automo-
bile field kitchen in the illustrations is
one that is made necessary by the swift-
ness with which armies in the field are
transported and by the promptness with
which these armies must be supplied
with food. In this field kitchen the
army cook raises the canopy on the rear
end. Behold! A kitchen of the most
compact, yet of the most complete kind,
is revealed.
Four high-pressure burners furnish
The Longest Pipe Line in America
One of the greatest pipe-laying proj-
ects ever brought to a successful conclu-
sion in the western part of this country,
and possibly in this entire land, was the
laying of one hundred and fifty-three
miles of eight-inch steel pipe from the
Midway oil fields to Vernon, California,
at the expense of three million, five hun-
dred thousand dollars. This line has a
daily capacity of between twenty and
thirty thousand barrels of oil and rep-
resents capital of three nations.
The actual route of the pipe line is
as follows: Beginning at Pentland and
passing through the southern part
BE of the Midway district, the line
enters the Tejon pass. After
leaving the pass its course lies through
the Castaic country, then through the
Newhall tunnel and the San Fernando
valley, until it meets the Santa Fe tracks.
the heat; cleverly concealed pumps force
water from the fifty-gallon tank in
front of the car to the enamelled sink
in the kitchen; and a variety of uten-
sils, ‘such as jugs, plates, meat-choppers
and fish-slicers are provided for the rap-
id and clean preparation of food. Like
most modern kitchens, too, this one
boasts of ventilators, both at the sides
and in the roof of the car. Indeed, it
would seem as if the English firm which
invented this motor-kitchen simply made
a practical, miniature edition of a most
approved and modern type of hotel
kitchen.
Thence it proceeds to Vernon, where
there is a double topping plant capable
of treating about twenty thousand bar-
rels a day, and finally on to the sea.
Along the route there are eleven high-
pressure and one low-pressure pumping
stations, and beside these there are three
chief storage stations and two loading |
stations. One of the storage stations, |
consisting of four fifty-five thousand-bar-
rel tanks, is at Pentland, another made
up of the same number of tanks is at San
Fernando, and a third, consisting of six
fifty-five thousand-barrel tanks, is beside
the ocean. |
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1916-01
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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93
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 88, n. 1, 1916
