Talk:Tea chest
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There's at least a few links now, and some useful redirects, so I removed the {{linkless|November 2006}} notice. — Johan the Ghost seance 18:37, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Weight of tea?
[edit]What weight of tea does a standard chest contain? 82.163.24.100 (talk) 19:42, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Tea Chests
[edit]The sort of box that tea was shipped in from india etc, is a plyboard box, typically three-ply, with metal strapping down the edges. Inside, it was lined with aluminium foil.
They used to be quite commonly available over here (australia). Looking at the samples on e-bay australia, there were boxes with 40 kg, 48 kg, 50 kg, and 58 kg net, the tare was in the order of 5.3 to 10 kg. The typical quoted dimensions is 40 × 40 × 60, or sometimes 50 x 50 x 75, or around 3 to 5 bushels. One site suggested six to the metre, which might suggest the latter is a typical size. In any case, these suggest a shipping density for tea is in the order of 1/2 of water.
The correct google-search is "vintage tea chests" "bushells tea chest" also works.
http://aso.gov.au/titles/ads/bushells-tea-factory/clip1/#
All of the boxes i saw on ebay had weight in kg, but the quoted sizes reflect what i recall them to be. Wendy.krieger (talk) 11:27, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
History needs expanding
[edit]This section needs reworking and expanding significantly as it has almost no history in it. i.e.:
When did they come into use? When did they fall out of use? etc.
Units really need auto conversion too, although metric is better for me. Lkingscott (talk) 09:51, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Tea storage chests?
[edit]Is seems like chests for storing tea were also called "tea chests"? For instance, one. And we have some really lovely images of that sort on Commons -- for instance this one.
And then maybe we could replace that unhelpful low-res thumb at the top. -- Avocado (talk) 01:47, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
Photo Request
[edit]OK, so technically the existing photo at the top is freely licensed, but the resolution is lower than we use for most copyrighted images on the site. It's so small as to be extremely difficult to even tell what the subject is. Surely we can find or create something with better resolution to replace it. -- Avocado (talk) 01:53, 7 December 2025 (UTC)