I bought new machinery - a 'Progressive' eight-head bottle and a carbonator able to produce 250 gallons of soda water per hour; also a Hydro bottle washer that took away a lot of the  hand work, although the washer was only a glorified rinser and the dirty bottles still needed hand cleaning with a brush.              Bottle washing at Shelleys's in 1939 when I went there was done in a soaker tub with about sixteen trays.                                                       The bottles were put in upside down and moved down into a caustic soda solution heated by steam.                                                                  When they had completed the circuit a lever was pulled to slide them into a rinser, then they were put onto trays and sprayed with clean water.    The operator standing at the front of the machine had to smell all of the bottles as people used to put things like kerosene and phenyl into them. Those bottles were discarded and destroyed as it was impossible to clean them properly.                          When Shelley first started the bottles were corked and tied, then the bottles with the glass marble in the neck were used.                                    After those went out of use most of them were broken by boys  to get out the marbles.                                                                        About 1956 I moved the plant to Patton Street and did quite well, but it is surprising how many shops have closed since the advent of supermarkets.                                                               The supermarkets were selling drinks at prices lower than Local manufacturers could make them so about 1988 I had enough, and sold out to Mark Poole who still has the business. He makes cordials but does not make any cool drinks.          I have now retired.                                                                       Other drink manufacturers in Broken Hill that I recall were-                         Ryan and Co. William Street.                                                    F.W.Adams  Oxide Street and Argent Lane.                                      The Masonic building now occupies part of the  site and the          Workingmen's Club car park was where the factory stood.                                Eastman's  in Wolfram Street run by Mick Sumsion.                               Silver City Mineral Water Co.   Argent Street.                                  Courtney's in Chapple Street run by a Joe Boulus.                                 Bottled Pepsi Cola and '3 spot' drink s.                                           taken over by Ken McBeth.                                                       Fred Peter ran Adams.                                                         Lindstrom's   Oxide Street near Grant's Ice Works, then moved to               Railwaytown.  Later became Dalle's.                                                    Fontaine's Argent Street made their own cordials.                                                                                BREWERIES OF BROKEN HILL Broken Hill’s  first Brewery was the Waverly Brewery, which began in 1888 in what is now known as Silica Street.                      Mr Theodore Bruce of Adelaide, the first general manager, had obtained a one acre block of land where excellent well-water was available. Mr Guildford Gray was the brewer.                                                                     The brewery later was operated by Messrs Simpson and Beaglehole, and closed in 1907.                                                                           The South Australian Brewing Company opened at the northern end of Beryl Street, Broken Hill about 1890. This brewery was closed in 1926, from which date all supplies were transported from Adelaide.                                    In 1987 the Company moved to the Shelleys Cordial Factory premises on the corner of Morgan and O'Farrell Streets.                                         The West End Brewery on the corner of Kaolin and Morgan Streets was  established about 1890 and closed in 1918.  It was originally known as the Shamrock brewery. Owned by Mr F.Malony and Mr James Sloan.  Mr Malony died in 1915.                                                            Another Broken Hill brewery was Burton's, at the rear of Sloan's Globe Hotel. Built in 1895.                                                                  Silver age 1 January 1895: The partnership of Mr James Sloan and Peter McIndoe, trading as McIndoe and Co. was dissolved and the ownership of Burton's Brewery was transferred to the Burton Brewery and Aerated Water Co. with Mr Smallpage as Secretary.         James Sloan also had the Globe Hotel in Argent Street.                           In 1932 the Shell Company purchased the site from  Burton's Brewery in Blende Street.                             BARRIER MINER OFFICE