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Description: | McVitie's have a similar history to that of Huntley & Palmers. The story begins with William McVitie who was born in Dumfries in 1770. A friend of Burns and Scott (his name features in 'Rob Roy'), he founded a bakery business in the 1840s in Edinburgh. In 1888 the very successful business became McVitie and Price. In 1901 they established a manufacturing presence south of the border with a factory at Harlesden, Middlesex. In 1911 they became a public company. In 1948 they formed United Biscuits Ltd with McFarlane Lang and in 2000 they were bought by Finalrealm and Nabisco Holdings Corp. The Digestive and Rich Tea biscuits were, by the mid-twentieth century, their main brands. This sample tin features their standard motto - 'The Premier Biscuits of Britain' - which was used from the 1920s onwards. The reference to the royal warrant on the lid refers to the King, so this tin must date from before Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1952. | 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: | McVitie and Price | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | social history trade domestic | Temporal: | start=1930-01-01; end=1950-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Not known | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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