A Miscellany of Baker Perkins’ Bits and Pieces


Tags, Timers and Toolboxes



  1. Tool Tag and Inspection Disc from Westwood Works.

  2. Date and Time Stamp made by Chronostamp. This wind-up clock had rubber hour and minute hands on the underside, replicating the position of the clock’s hands. It was used for stamping in-coming documents with the time and date of receipt for records purposes.

  3. The underside of the Chronostamp and a typical print-out.

  4. Tool Tag. This would have been handed over to the Tool Store keeper in exchange for the loan of a tool.

  5. A Field Engineer’s Toolbox. This particular example was later used by the Sports Club’s Badminton Section to store equipment.

  6. The bottom half of a pair of Wafer Machine plates. These cast iron plates were used as a hinged pair, batter being fed between the plates and baked to form a thin sheet that was then cut to size before going to a second process to form e.g. Kit Kat or caramel bars. The top plate would normally be engraved with a pattern. This plate was one of a batch of rejects, probably due to the casting being porous, but was ground flat and subsequently used as a surface plate. Such plates were sold to employees for the princely sum of 2 shillings and sixpence (12 ½ p).

Old Baking Ovens

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