THE HOUSE OF PERNOD AND SONS

The most stringent cleanliness, the most perfect order

reign everywhere and when in the evening the vast distilling

coppers are resplendent under the rays of the electrical

lighting, the effect is truly magnificent. If, after visiting the

distillery, we make our way right or left, we enter two large

well-lit rooms, the clamor of which contrasts with the calm

laboratory where two workmen are sufficient to monitor the

distillation and control the equipment. These are the workshops

for preparing and shipping bottles.

The rinsing machines, manned by eight workers, make

the bottles turn between fixed brushes, under hot water jets;

they come out perfectly clear, drain on pivoting draining racks

and pass to the filling machines which fill them at a rate of 20 a

minute; this machine, a little marvel, is special at the Pernod

house; it is the work of the technical director, Mr. Arthur

Borel, who with meticulous care occupies himself with the

improvement of the equipment.

The filled bottles come from there to the corkers, who

only have to place them under their machines, which, driven

by an ingenious mechanism, insert the stopper automatically.