Baker Perkins Historical Society - Virtual Books

BAKER PERKINS AT WAR

1 - DURING 19th CENTURY WARS

Jacob Perkins

• The Early Days - Innovations on US Navy Capital ships
• From Nails to Naval Cannons
• Jacob Perkins’ Steam Gun
• The Steam Gun's final home - "A fairground attraction"?

A.M. Perkins & Sons Ltd, London

• Early history of the company
• The Perkins Heating System
• Loftus Perkins
• The Oven Business
• Feeding the Troops – Part 1
• The "Aldershot" Oven
• Who invented the military mobile oven?
• First “Polly Perkins” Mobile Oven
• Developing the "Universal" mixer"for cordite production

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An early "Polly Perkins" Mobile Oven in the Despatch Dept. at Westwood

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