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How Clay Bricks Were Made from the Mid 1800s to the Early 1900s in USA-IV
5. TRANSPORTING THE BRICK
The brick was removed from the kilns on brick buggies or kiln carts. Approximately 8100 bricks could be removed at a time. The men worked in pairs, one man would toss the brick from the kiln to the second man, who would load the buggy. The brick was then stored in large stacks, called hakes, out in the open. At full production, the amount of brick produced each month equaled one million. Sometimes there were as many as five months inventory before all the brick were shipped out. Eighty thousand brick were shipped per day. Each railroad car contained from 8,000 to 10,000 brick. The railway cars were loaded by hand with the brick buggies. Two men could load a car in one day.
Other yards shipped the finished brick via schooners or barges. Astoria, Queens was a major distribution center for the New York City area.
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