An interesting booklet published by the CWS Preserve, Canning, Peel and Pickle Works in Reading entitled Book of Knowledge and Handy Ready Reckoner.
The booklet has 2 purposes firstly to provide lots of useful information to the reader but also to publicise the factory.
Within the booklet are numerous pages of information weights & measures, mutliplication tables, foreign curencies, electrical units etc, etc, etc.
Also included are photographs of the factory and the various processes going on inside it. This gives a good idea of what the factory must have been like at the time.
It has 40 pages plus covers and is 125 x 190mm in size.
There is no publication date but the latest date mentioned is 1933 and so it was probably printed just after.
It has been used with some rusting of the staples but overall it is in good condition.
A really good item of advertising for both the Reading Preserve factory and also for the CWS as a whole.
Please note. I do my best to accurately photograph and describe the condition of the items for sale, including any minor defects, but all pieces are vintage and have had previous lives and so may have minor flaws.
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