chacon`s

[castle261]

These ones were in the late 1950`s - no windows - Wonder HOW - they sent the keys ?
( Under lock & key - on board the ship ?)

[Smiffy]

There's a picture of one here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomascogley/6202734887

[castle261]

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.