Branch letters and bulletin extracts
Branch Letters (Branch Management Department memoranda)
Memoranda (from Branch Management department at Blackfriars (head office) with instructions regarding product availability; pricing; display; advertising etc.
Most of the branch letters dated 1924-6 Jan 1925 are numbered from 318 to 526 and those dated from 8 Jan 1925 onwards are numbered from 1 to...
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Most of the branch letters dated 1924-6 Jan 1925 are numbered from 318 to 526 and those dated from 8 Jan 1925 onwards are numbered from 1 to...
- Ref. No: SA/BRA/3/1/2/46/1
- Format: Bound Volume
- Date: 1924-1925
- Level: File
- Extent: 1 volume
- Access: Open
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Memoranda (from Branch Management department at Blackfriars (head office) with instructions regarding product availability; pricing; display; advertising etc.
Most of the branch letters dated 1924-6 Jan 1925 are numbered from 318 to 526 and those dated from 8 Jan 1925 onwards are numbered from 1 to 144.
Examples of subjects in branch letters include:
318: Cleaning of bicycles & tricycles at branches; Assistants' board money whilst on holiday
unnumbered: Griffin Cricket Club. Cricket match between the Club XI vs. branches of Tunbridge Wells
319: price changes (bottled fruits, tall salmon)
368: casks and firkins used in window displays of butter and margarine
381: "J. Sainsbury for the finest Dairy-Fed Pork and Pork Sausages" posters and cards (with example of card)
384: display of potted meats on cooked meat counter (with drawing showing how they should be displayed)
441, 520, 27 etc: new tea prize scheme (competition with sets of cards depicting British and foreign birds - see SA/MARK/ADV/1/3/2/8-9 for cards)
[442]: green labels for returns of fresh meat (with example)
472a: slips to indicate imported fresh meat (with example)
[486]: "Genuine Old York" linen tally [label] for York Ham (with example)
496 and 503: Christmas poultry prices
511: Christmas bonus of an extra week's wages for all branch staff
unnumbered, after 517: H.O. Section staff fancy dress dance and whist drive
unnumbered, after 66: new weekly meat stock sheet (with example)
92, 96: Public Health Regulations (Meat) no. 1432
unnumbered, after 115a: Griffin Athletic Club 1925 cricket season
139: New Zealand Butter cutting instructions (with diagram)
140: cards advertising “Genuine Canterbury” New Zealand Lamb (with example)
142: cost of using telephones
unnumbered, loose inside back cover: free balloons given away with sales of Crelos; postal address list of branches
Most of the branch letters dated 1924-6 Jan 1925 are numbered from 318 to 526 and those dated from 8 Jan 1925 onwards are numbered from 1 to 144.
Examples of subjects in branch letters include:
318: Cleaning of bicycles & tricycles at branches; Assistants' board money whilst on holiday
unnumbered: Griffin Cricket Club. Cricket match between the Club XI vs. branches of Tunbridge Wells
319: price changes (bottled fruits, tall salmon)
368: casks and firkins used in window displays of butter and margarine
381: "J. Sainsbury for the finest Dairy-Fed Pork and Pork Sausages" posters and cards (with example of card)
384: display of potted meats on cooked meat counter (with drawing showing how they should be displayed)
441, 520, 27 etc: new tea prize scheme (competition with sets of cards depicting British and foreign birds - see SA/MARK/ADV/1/3/2/8-9 for cards)
[442]: green labels for returns of fresh meat (with example)
472a: slips to indicate imported fresh meat (with example)
[486]: "Genuine Old York" linen tally [label] for York Ham (with example)
496 and 503: Christmas poultry prices
511: Christmas bonus of an extra week's wages for all branch staff
unnumbered, after 517: H.O. Section staff fancy dress dance and whist drive
unnumbered, after 66: new weekly meat stock sheet (with example)
92, 96: Public Health Regulations (Meat) no. 1432
unnumbered, after 115a: Griffin Athletic Club 1925 cricket season
139: New Zealand Butter cutting instructions (with diagram)
140: cards advertising “Genuine Canterbury” New Zealand Lamb (with example)
142: cost of using telephones
unnumbered, loose inside back cover: free balloons given away with sales of Crelos; postal address list of branches
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