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Description: | The Horlicks factory in Stoke Poges Lane is perhaps the most beautiful historical industrial building still standing in Slough. The idea to build in Slough occurred in 1906, when James Horlick bought a green field site from Eton College, but the building was not operational until 1908. The entire project cost £28,800, and by 1969 the extended factory produced 30 million pounds of powder a year.Unlike the Mars Bar, Horlicks Malted Milk was not born in Britain, but originated in the United States. In 1873 James joined his brother William in Chicago and started to manufacture a patented malt drink made especially for infants and invalids. In 1876 a new factory was built in Racine, Wisconsin and in 1883 the famous drink we know today was born. However, it took until 1890 for Horlicks to be marketed in Britain. Since the Slough factory was built, the firm has spread globally. In 1935 a factory was built in Australia and in 1960 a factory was built in the Indian Punjab to make Horlicks from buffalo milk. The success of the company also led it to buy other companies, including Slough's own Elliman, Sons & Co. in 1961. In the 1930s Horlicks even had an Antarctic mountain range named after it, in recognition of the company's support of Admiral Byrd's Antarctic expeditions. In 1969, Horlicks was bought by the Beecham Group. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Factories ; Trades and industries ; Horlicks ; Fireplaces Horlicks factory: Horlicks ; Beecham | Temporal: | start=2008-01-01; end=2008-01-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Michael Day | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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