The story of Port Sunlight / Lever Brothers.

  • Lever Brothers
Date:
[1930]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The story of Port Sunlight / Lever Brothers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S ly PORT SUNLIGHT OIL MILLS OIL MILLS PEE RSA Ne See 4 ANY of the oils used in soapmaking are produced from oil seeds by the M. oil-milling industry, and the Company has had its own mills at Port Sunlight for many years. — The chief seed crushed at Port Sunlight is the palm kernel, large supplies of which are drawn from the organizations owned by the Company in West Africa and the Congo. The process of seed crushing, which consists in grinding to a meal the hard seed and then subjecting the meal to heat and great pressure under which the oil is forced out, makes at one and the same time the oil for soapmaking or edible purposes and the oil cake so largely used for feeding cattle. The palm kernel cake so produced is perhaps a better-known feed in Denmark and Germany than in England. It suffers in the ordinary way from certain disadvantages, notably a lack of palatability ; a deficiency in minerals, which are now universally admitted to be necessary for adequate nutrition ; while the fibre or indigestible portion is frequently high. At Port Sunlight these points have received much attention, and by dint of careful selection of the raw materials and Bp eR Te PGS eI ODI. BS EEL SRLS Ry RL SS SSNS SE fr SS BENS LON LER EN GEN Et OLE GS. BLE fe CFE fe BOS ONL iy BES SE fr BSE BSE fy BOE fy CSR pt DEED fy SONS St DUE tt DPI te OD IE, DD EEN OLE LEC Oy WOOLEN TEEN ELON EEE ODE
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