Baker Perkins Historical Society - Virtual Books

BAKER PERKINS AT WAR

3 - DURING WORLD WAR ONE

Joseph Baker & Sons, Willesden

• The Baker family's reaction to the outbreak of war.
• Friend’s Ambulance Unit
• UK government slow to put industry on a war footing
• Company taken over as a controlled establishment.
• Armaments manufacture at Willesden.
• The Men who went to War
• Feeding the Troops – Part 2
• Talks with the War Office re benefits of using mechanical bakery equipment
• Bread Oven technology
• Bread dough forming and mixing equipment
• John Pointon and John Callow
• The development of the Baker-Perkins Standard Army Bread Plant

Werner Pfleiderer & Perkins Ltd. Peterborough

• “--- an episode of the most repugnant and unjustified kind”
• Armaments production at Westwood
• Inside Westwood Works in Wartime
• Werner Ovens in Royal Navy Vessels
• Producing diesel engines for tanks
• The Men who went to War
• The Zeppelin Boys
• Rudolph Ihlee Lithographs.
• "Pickings from Perkins"

Joseph Baker Sons And Perkins Ltd.

• Discussions on amalgamation
• The Amalgamation - the birth of Baker Perkins

A Train Load of "Polly Perkins" Ovens leaves Westwood for The Front

Rose Brothers, Gainsborough (Acquired in 1961)

• Breech blocks and gun sights for "Q" ships
• A technically advanced bomb sight

Forgrove, Leeds {Acquired in 1943)

• Early stages of the war - sub-contract work for munitions factories.
• Later - a series of contracts for machining 6" shell noses.

James Halley, West Bromwich (Acquired in 1961)

• Pressed into Government service until the Armistice.

Baker Perkins Pty, Australia

• In 1916, in spite of the war, a second office was opened in Melbourne.

Baker Perkins Inc, Saginaw

• Key Baker Perkins employees seconded to work for US Government

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