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Description: | Unfavourable exchange rates with France after the First World War and high import tariffs presented problems for Huntley & Palmers business with France. A solution to these problems was to establish a Huntley & Palmers factory in France, at La Courneuve, in the industrial belt of Paris near St Denis. This was set up in 1924 but was never truly successful, in part due to its use of inefficient machinery brought from Reading. In 1936-7 the devaluation of the Franc, strikes and the imposition by the government of a 40-hour week caused further problems. The enterprise was finished off by the occupation of France during the Second World War. France was the only overseas country Huntley & Palmers ever manufactured in. | 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: | rolling stock building social history trade transport | Temporal: | start=1924-01-01; end=1929-12-31; | 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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