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Creator (Definite): Anon.Date: 5 Oct 1934
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CitesSpratt's Patent Ltd.
Description:'Lancashire paid a high compliment to those whose business it is to cater for the welfare of the "Friend of Man" when the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Liverpool visited the Northern Factory of Spratt's Patent Limited at Fazakerley on Friday last, and made an official tour of inspection of the extensive works...
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... At the main entrance to the factory a dainty white-overalled factory lass stepped forward and smilingly presented the Lady Mayoress with a bouquet of roses on behalf of her workmates...
The light and airy conditions of the works, their spacious and orderly character and the elaborate arrangements which exist there to safeguard the health and to ensure the general well-being of the employees appealed strongly to the Lady Mayoress, who graciously described the interior of the factory as "a credit to Liverpool and to Spratt's."
Mr. F.J. Winchester, F.C.I.S., F.S.S., the well-know and ever-popular Liverpool Secretary of the R.S.P.C.A... paid a warm tribute to the scope and excellence of Spratt's Shipping and Livestock Service, which he reminded his hearers, dealt not merely with the shipment of dogs and an amazing variety of other animals for export to and from all parts of the world, but which also effected all kinds of livestock insurance, maintained a number of splendidly equipped boarding kennel establishments and sanatoria, capable of accommodating some 800 dogs, for temporary quartering and quarantine purposes, and acted generally as the "Thomas Cook's" of the animal world.'
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Cited byT. Quick, 'Puppy Love: Domestic Science, “Women's Work,” and Canine Care,' Journal of British Studies 58 (2) (2019), pp. 289-314.
Description:'Participation in home exhibitions encouraged dog-food manufacturers and breeders to adopt new strategies of self-presentation. At the exhibitions, manufacturers portrayed themselves as exemplars of middle-class respectability and scientific domesticity as much as providers of alimentary produce... Companies also highlighted the scientific nature of their manufacturing processes. Merrett’s Ltd. of Cardiff gave a “practical demonstration of the method of manufacture” of their new “Rayrusks” (which occurred under “ultra violet rays”) at the Crufts show of 1933.” [note: '“The Exhibit of Merrett’s Ltd., of Cardiff, at Cruft’s Show,” Our Dogs, no. 90 (24 February 1933): 502. See also “Merseyside Honours Spratt’s,” Our Dogs, no. 97 (3 October 1934): 31. On interwar connectionsbetween industrial work and domesticity, see Long, “Industrial Homes, Domestic Factories.”']' (311)
