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I have more reason to recall Transparent Paper Ltd than Wright's Bourbon Creams as, despite the London address given 'under' the film, the company's mills were at Heap Bridge on the boundary between what was then Heywood and Bury in Lancashire and a trip on the 21 bus past the place really did make you realise that paper and cellulose manufacturing stank! It wasn't helped that they were next door to another major paper mill on the River Roch, Yates Duxbury - no wonder the water quality was zilch. Transparent Paper Ltd dated from a post-WW1 restructuring of Wrigley's paper mills whose origins went back to at least 1716. After cellulose production started in 1928 TPL went on to be one of the largest such manufacturers in the UK and Diophane was typical of their products.
It enabled a radical change in the packaging of consumer goods such as biscuits - away from purchasing them 'loose' and by weight to pre-packed sealed packets such as these Wright's Bourbon Creams that could be stacked on self-service shelves and keep the contents dry and free from taint. Wright's - with their 'mischief' biscuit eating mascot - dated back to 1790 when they began making ship's biscuit for local trade. They grew into sweet biscuit making and were restructured in the 1930s by which time they'd acquired other concerns such as Middlemass of Edinburgh. In post-war years they expanded into cakes and grocery shops - both acquiring other companies and also divesting themselves of some subsidiaries such as cake making to J Lyons in 1962. Eventually in 1972 they were bought out by Cavenham Foods who sold the biscuit side of the business on to United Biscuits production at South Shields ceasing the following year.
A fine double sided advert issued by the American company Reynolds Metal for their "Reynolds Master Metal" foil packaging that saved the day for Betsy Ross' potato chips of Richland, PA., and that appears in the March 1935 issue of "Advertising Arts". The magazine contains many examples of advertising, publicity and packaging and this advert includes a tipped in Betsy Ross package and is printed on the foiled paper used to make such packets.
As the advert notes the use of foil increased the shelf life of a product that was notoriously difficult to store or stock over a fairly short sell-by date. Potato chips, or crisps as we know them, were often sold loose by weight, in greaseproof bags or in sealed metal tins. Betsy Ross, and the very 'deco' style factory in Richland, PA., appears in a blog page and states that they began production in 1924 in Pottsville but eventually settled in Richland. The change in packaging appears to have arrived in 1934 according to this advert, and the factory continued in production until 1947 when it closed. It is said, locally, that this was due to a change in recipe but whatever, it appears this stayed a local or regional product and did not make it to the 'big time' nationally.
This page shows how Mr Arthur C. Ross, who founded the company and named it after his daughter, visited Reynolds with his packaging concern and found the answer - along with facts as to rancidity in inadequate packaging that led to spoilage and loss of sales.
A fine double sided advert issued by the American company Reynolds Metal for their "Reynolds Master Metal" foil packaging that saved the day for Betsy Ross' potato chips of Richland, PA., and that appears in the March 1935 issue of "Advertising Arts". The magazine contains many examples of advertising, publicity and packaging and this advert includes a tipped in Betsy Ross package and is printed on the foiled paper used to make such packets.
As the advert notes the use of foil increased the shelf life of a product that was notoriously difficult to store or stock over a fairly short sell-by date. Potato chips, or crisps as we know them, were often sold loose by weight, in greaseproof bags or in sealed metal tins. Betsy Ross, and the very 'deco' style factory in Richland, PA., appears in a blog page and states that they began production in 1924 in Pottsville but eventually settled in Richland. The change in packaging appears to have arrived in 1934 according to this advert, and the factory continued in production until 1947 when it closed. It is said, locally, that this was due to a change in recipe but whatever, it appears this stayed a local or regional product and did not make it to the 'big time' nationally.
It is lovely to see something so ephemeral as a "5c worth of quality" surviving thanks to being tipped on to the page.
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