Anything shipped by rail or truck can be handled with pallets. This picture shows the method used for soya flour, cottonseed meal, fish meal, wheat flour, pulverized oats, bran and middling.
Lift truck and pallets used for handling and storage of wood pulp. This is a comparatively new method for the Terminal and should reduce handling costs considerably.
Many carloads of tank transporters were received and stored during the late spring and early summer of 1942. All were shipped out by August and in time for use by Montgomery at the beginning of his African Campaign commencing at El Alamein, Egypt.
