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Offline castle261

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Re: chacon`s
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2020, 06:40:38 AM »
These ones were in the late 1950`s - no windows - Wonder HOW - they sent the keys ?
( Under lock & key - on board the ship ?)

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Re: chacon`s
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2020, 02:17:54 PM »

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chacon`s
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2020, 10:48:08 AM »
I put this out - on the other site.

While waiting by No 2 basin - I was on 472 - a 20 ton crane - I noticed this lorry came & parked
under me - with a load of - what looked like boxes - I got my sketching pad - drew the lorry +
boxes - I had just finished - I was asked to take the boxes off - there were six or eight of them -
these boxes were 10 x 6 x 6 - with a door that opened in the middle - heavy steel banding across
the door with a strong padlocks - these we now know as CHACON`S -

looking online a few years ago - I came across the name & how it came about.

Two men working in the Dockyard invented the word from

Chatham CHA - CON - Containers they were the fore runner of the steel containers you see today.