London Transport Catering : "Pork Chipolatas" sausage cellophane wrapper, c1970
Over the years London Transport turned its hands to the manufacturing of many things - some more obvious such as bus stop posts, some less known such as aircraft and components during WW2. However, for many years, the undertaking ran its own extensive Catering services and this included not only staff canteens and the training school that backed the staff therebut also the preperation of foodstuffs.
These took the form of many prepared foods - such as bakery products - that were delivered across the whole LT area on a daily basis from the Food Preperation Centre at Croydon, south London, but also certain raw materials. These included butchery products and items such as these - LT sausages. As may be gathered the fact that these were also available direct to staff for purchase as part of 'home deliveries' and such products also included LT tea and coffee as well as seasonal hampers that included the famous LT Christmas Pudding. This wrapper is for the Pork Chipolatas range.
The Centre was closed as part of the contraction of LT in the '70s and '80s. For many years it used, as a logo or brand, the heraldic 'griffin' that London Transport had adopted upon its formation as the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.
London Transport Catering : "Pork Chipolatas" sausage cellophane wrapper, c1970
Over the years London Transport turned its hands to the manufacturing of many things - some more obvious such as bus stop posts, some less known such as aircraft and components during WW2. However, for many years, the undertaking ran its own extensive Catering services and this included not only staff canteens and the training school that backed the staff therebut also the preperation of foodstuffs.
These took the form of many prepared foods - such as bakery products - that were delivered across the whole LT area on a daily basis from the Food Preperation Centre at Croydon, south London, but also certain raw materials. These included butchery products and items such as these - LT sausages. As may be gathered the fact that these were also available direct to staff for purchase as part of 'home deliveries' and such products also included LT tea and coffee as well as seasonal hampers that included the famous LT Christmas Pudding. This wrapper is for the Pork Chipolatas range.
The Centre was closed as part of the contraction of LT in the '70s and '80s. For many years it used, as a logo or brand, the heraldic 'griffin' that London Transport had adopted upon its formation as the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.