Messrs Mennie and Dey's Biscuit Factory.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3017, 16 October 1878, Page 2

Messrs Mennie and Dey's Biscuit Factory.

Messrs Mennie and Dey's Biscuit Manufactory can with justice be classed amongst the successful colonial industries. Like many other successful concerns it sprung from very little, every year increasing until it has attained its present importance, and the plant is now as complete as any in the colony; but with their praiseworthy enterprise, the firm are not satisfied with that, .and have taken steps to make their business outstrip all its contemporaries. They are now importing at an expense of something like £700, one of McKenzie's patent American reel-ovens, and the first consignment of the material—consisting of 71 pieceshas arrived here, it having been brought over from Melbourne by the last trip of the Hero. We understand that this will be the third one of the kind in the Australasian colonies, the celebrated Victorian firm of Smith and Son having one, and an Adelaide firm the other. The oven, when erected, will be a small chamber 15 feet by 12 feet, in the centre of which is a j large wheel not unlike the paddle wheel | of a steamer. The biscuit pans are. placed on the arms of the wheel, which will be .kept constantly revolving by steam power. An ingenious damper is used for the regulation of the heat, according to the kind of biscuits being baked. This oven will bake 1300 biscuits at a time, and with a great saving of fuel over tbe old method. Great credit is due to Messrs Mennie and Dey tor their enterprise in this matter, which it ia to be hoped will assist them to promote their industry even more successfully than «t ■present. I