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Description: | The thin paper and rather desperate tone of this leaflet gives us an insight into the dire straits that Huntley & Palmers found themselves in at the end of the war. For the benefit of potential customers in Spain, France and England it lists the damage the war had inflicted both on the country and on the business. "Huntley & Palmers Ltd are confident that their Overseas friends will understand why their biscuits cannot yet be supplied in their pre-war variety and abundance. May they remind you of their own contributions - Biscuit Industry controlled by the Ministry of Food. Export Trade Prohibited. Civilian deliveries confined to Southern area of England. Civilian Production curtailed from over 400 different kinds of biscuits to 9 only. Factory space requisitioned. Personnel reduced to 1/4 of pre-war number, those left being unfit or over-age for Military Service. Experts and Technicians mobilized. Essential ingredients in short supply. And all through the war day and night work to maintain Army supplies." | 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 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | social history trade war | Temporal: | start=1945-11-01; end=1945-11-30; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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