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SWEET WORK FOR THESE GIRLS!
34,000 TONS OF SUGAR MAKE
A THAMES-SIDE
MR WILLIAM HOPKINS, 28, of Woolwich, pulls the lever that releases a mixture of raw sugar and raw syrup into centrifugal machines in the first refining stage. The machine spins rapidly and out go molasses and some impurities.
MOUNTAIN
FROM the open bay of a warehouse, 60 feet above the Thames on a misty, December morning, the view of Kent coast and factory chimneys hardly reminds you of hot sunshine and palm trees.
Yet if you look down into the barges lying like fat alligators on the water below, you will see something to make you think of these things. Something golden, even in the haze. The wealth of the West Indies—a shining cargo of raw sugar.
Mr
And to become on expert pansman has taken 03- William Reeves 39 year-old
For you are looking out from bulding of his most famous the sugar, It is performed by
pinsmen, of Thames gift of 1, the Tate Gallery. the unloading bay Refinery at Silvertown, one of About the same time, the three refineries of Tate Abram Lyle was also doing well and Lyle Lad,
biggest sugar in the same line of busness at Empire, with concerns in the
an Greenock. He, too, of London to build a of 1,750,000 output
tone Bught a year--just about half this one at Plaistow, a mile or the total refined in Britain, and so up-river from Henry Tate's
that topped factory. This became the home his fellow pansmen a turnover
of Golden Syrup.
with
£100 million in 1952-53,
It was in 1839 that a Liver- pool grocer, Mr Hehry Tate, went into the sugar business. Hls enterprise prospered
reyard.
In
Came to refinery-
The Builders of Britain's future
by JOHN
WATERMAN
Today, bus conductors discriminate between the refineries дя "Tate's"
but the
still two
and
years,
Yet he says, "You can always learn
something, Experience counts-and it only comes with doing the job."
So skilled are Mr Reeves and that they
can tell, and make allowances for raw sugar from differing areas for Domingo sugar, or Jamaica
Their job is to sugar. produce crystals of just the right size and in the case of cubes.
two different sizes of crystals..
It is a trickly business, look- ing through inspection glasses in the 15ft, high vacuum pans at the whirling liquid, and Judging the right moment to "sced" the crystals-that is, adding a little caster sugar to encourage crystal- growth.
It Is Tricky
1873 he built a now retinery at Liverpool-now one of the three Tule and Lyle factories.
Five years later, he bullt a refinery in London-the Thames on the site of an old His enterprise cun- tinued to prosper.
He become Sir Henry Tate before he died in 1899, and out of his sugar "Lyle's,"
two Пятов fortune had given many thou- amalgamated in 1921. There are sands of pounds to universities, several members of both hospitals God libraries and families stil in the business, more than £130,000 for the The president is 71-year-old Lord Lyle, with 50 year*
One inexpert move and the service.
whole process is ruined:
**falsc The process of refining has grain": is produced-additional gone für since the simple days crystals of this 18th century recipe: which spoil the regularity of the "Melt your sugar in a suficient ultimate sugar. quantity of clean water, clarify with bullock's blood, remove ye scumi, and then boil to the
which you may destre." Thames Refinery spreads
MISS JEAN CORDEROY, 17, of Plumstead, and 21-year-old Miss Marie John. son, of East Ham, work in the icing-sugar packing department. Demand for this kind of sugar has gone up remarkably since de-rationing.
SIDE GLANCES
10-8
By Galbraith Radio Hongkong
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mine le worn pretty thin?
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over 241⁄2 ncrea
of the
wrong
size
In the packing departments, the work is done by white overalled women. In one section, a strange, old-fashioned-looking packet passes along the tables. Mr Tony Tate, a and employs
a great-grandson of Sir Henry Tate. poffits to 2,500 men and women. Alto them and explains: "These are gether 8,400 people work for
all for West Africa. We dare Toto and Lyle, Raw sugar t
not change the old design on dha cane-growing the comes from
packets, because many the areas of
Empire mainly natives can't read. They ro British West Indies and from po
Cuba and San Domingo. Home- desta mugar packet by ita
grown beet sugar is also used, making a total of about 645,000 tons of raw sugar passing into Thames Refinery every year.
Foreman
If we changed, they wouldn't buy."
Where does all the sugar go to eventually? Not all of it is intended for the tea-cup. There is also icing sugar, for which the demand has leaped phenomenally since de rationing, Curiously enough, the overall demand for sugar is down; are using up stocks accumulated probably because housewives
later during the
stages rationing. of the
The man who watches every ton of it safely into the factory is 65-year-old Mr Harry Hoy MRTI. Moustached, and wearing a brown overall jacket, the foreman in charge
raw
ho is
For Everest
There is, too, sugar for the making of Jam and preserves, chocolate cakes and biscuits, soft drinks; for canning; for brewing, and for beekeepers. of And this year,
Tate and Lyle of supplied a special concentrated
sugar
for the Everest Expedi
Tate's In 1010 tion-just as made the sugar for Captain Scott's polar exploration
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a
unloading ganga who swing the sugar in over the aide of the bay, in bags and in bulk, and send it down to eight silos.
Next to the unloading bays is the most remarkable sight the whole
factory-and ono which thought of in terms number of cups of tea fantastic. A 34,000-ton plle
Aigar reaches like Siberian foothill the
10 top of 00-foot high storage shed.
From this point the refining process begins-at the rate of
All this activity keeps Thames 100 tons of raw sugar an hour.. towards that total Tate
Refinery humming. Humming H.K.T.
Out at
and 12 noon. Favourite Choral singing sugar to the tune of £150,000 which is quite a figure for at the other end comes Lyle turnover of £100 million from. Opera, 12.30 p.m. Programme worth a day. Summary; 11.33. Double Attraction First task is to get rid of the industry built solely on sweet- Champ Bulti-Toni Ardeh Jackle
with Bobby molasses, which surround rest, a quest for purity, and the & His Orch Hackett (trumpet); 1, Time Signal, Sugar crystal in the raw state answer to that simple question
and gives
it its
"With, or without?" Robert' Fernan and his Orchestra: 1.15.
brown-gold. News, Weather Report and Special Eppearance. The raw sugar is Announcements: 130, Music for mixed with raw-syrup in tanks Thirty Minute Theatre into what is called "magma”--- "Who's Your Lady Friend" by which looks like a giant pudding Peter Fraser produced by Norman batter, and smells faintly Wright (BBCTS); 3, Frank, Chacka- rum (which is made from field and his Orchestra, Memories molasses. Here a "magma at- of Paris: 3.19, Jan August Plano) tendunt is in charge, like Mr with Orchestral Accompaniment: Joseph Hull,
the who judges 3.30. A Man and his Music. The rate of flow and controls it. Sboty of Edward German (BBCTS); The "magma" passes into
Musical Highlights Broadway Production. Gordon whirling tanks,
where centrl- Jenkins & his Orch; 4.45, Association fugal force throws out
Cilsson
you: 2.30.
4.30.
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from
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Of
Services V. and Impurities. More The Hest Commentary by John Wallace from the Club Ground are got rid of by washing. (CB): 525, Interlude: 030, Variely Sugar, still impure, is caught Fanfare.From the North of Eat-In
mesh
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This
Programme Bummary: 6,03,
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Fen Bilt Hour presented by Bally incredible potpourri string, Ann (Studio): 0.30, Edmunde om bag Abre, cane fibre, wood, and his Orchestra. A Programme trash, atones and small coal. of Latin American Music (BBCTS); GED, Weather Report: Tumes Bidaai Cane knives, small replies and and World News London Rear); large insects are sometimes 7.10, Commentary London Helay found and occasionally, sets of or Special Announcement: falno teeth,
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MISS JUNE DALTON, 16, of Eltham, helps to pack a cube sugar con- slgument for West Africa. More than one- third of Tate and Lyle's total output goes for export to 70 different countries.
ONE of the most skilled jobs in the refinery- producing crystals of just the right size in glant vacuum pans. Pansman R. P. Flint, of Abbey Wood, makes a test.
TWO of the oldest hands at Thames refinery....with a total of 103 years' service. Mr Henry Jackson, 69, of: Forest Gate, and 68-year-old Mr James Grant, of East Ham, met as boys in the refinery; have been together ever since.
PACKING cube sugar: 17-year-old Miss Pat Baker, of Beckton, parcels.
packets at the rate of one every second."
South China Morning
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