Tour of a Chocolate and Cocoa Manufactory, 1884
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Weighing and Filling Packets

In one shop there are tin-workers who stamp out the lid, put on the end, and present you with a perfectly tight tin canister in something less than a minute. Everywhere there is pressure, movement, and order. The nimble fingers that affix the labels to the packets, equally with those that fill the packets themselves, weary the eyes by the rapidity of their movement. Huge cases travel to and fro, as they pass to one or another of the great packing departments, whilst trollies, laden to the utmost, carry boxes and packages to be sorted out and sent to every part of England and every quarter of the globe. A century and a half of constant and ever increasing effort lives in the factory, and those who today listen to their of carefully planned machinery cannot fail to remember those early times when chocolate was the luxury of the wealthy instead of being, as it is to-day, the everyday necessity of millions of our people.

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