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' Steam engine was "fireless" due to the risk of fire from a usual open firebox and the boiler was replenished from a central steam point I knew one of the factory engineers who informed me that Huntley & Palmers had their own large fire brigade reputedly larger than the Reading Corporation fire brigade When production was ceased a lot of the biscuit making machinery was destroyed and scrapped There was an on site shop where their products which were "seconds" or near sell by date could be purchased '

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