[1930s CADBURY CHOCOLATE FACTORY AT BOURNVILLE UNITED KINGDOM]

[Music] the starting of milk CH ah that was a business but they didn't begin on that until they'd been nearly 20 years at bourneville and ah but I haven't told you how they came to move out there yet the brid street Factory had become much too small for such a growing business as the brothers Richard and George Cadbury had made of the firm so they had to start looking about for some new place besides it was getting all built round and they always said that for a food factory you must have clean air and open surroundings so they uh they looked around and found a place about 4 miles out of Birmingham it was lovely country sloping Midland with a little trout stream called the Bourn running through it and it was here that bournville a factory in a garden and bournville Village began to grow right in the center of England where such a factory should be it was um it was Richard tedbury himself who made the rough plans for the factory and it was only little more than six months after the first brick was laid that the Bridge Street Works were closed the demands for CB's products increased so quickly that the factory Grew From what it was in 1879 to this in 1899 and then to this in 1932 h you would think it would be big enough now wouldn't you oh but we still have to go on building that's because people want such a lot of C mil chocolate and chocolate bar it was in 1899 that the firm started making its famous milk chocolate what's that about milk chocolate I know all about that I was working at night and up until the day I retired what ni well it was like this after a few years the directors decided they should build a milk condensing Factory right among the Farms so that it should be absolutely fresh milk that should come to the condensing machines so they build the factory at night only the very best milk from the very best cows is good enough to come to night for our milk chocolate and you should see the rich pasture land they feed upon the cows that Supply the sort of milk we [Music] want it's all very up to dat the way the cows are milk and everything [Music] you see there's absolute [Music] cleanliness there's a place at Frampton on S where we have another such a lovely old village with old English [Music] Cottages it's on a canal too like night when the milk comes in large churns straight from the Farms it's first tipped out run over cooling [Music] machines [Music] and poured into special tanks each of these tanks holds 1,000 gallons milk has run through at least three sives and a filter cloth it's only kept here a very short time before it's needed and samples are taken so that it can be tested by the gerera test [Music] then the milk has to be condensed first it is heated and mixed with sugar then pumped up into the condensing kettles such huge copper kettles they are and the milk simmers inside them for over an hour by this time about 2/3 are evaporated away and the thick Rich condensed milk comes pouring out down into the room beneath into the [Music] mixer but I can't waste any more time talking I've got to go down to the works oh here's grandfather morning baby hurry up grandfa father your breakfast will be cold you're going out py yes I'm starting at the born Vita Department tomorrow and the poor woman's going to show me [Music] [Applause] r that's the new bong is a packing to cope with the demand it's the latest product of The Firm made of British eggs British malt full cream milk some chocolate it has the most nourishing and health-giving qualities first there's the eggs new laid eggs from British Farms the eggs are delivered in large crates they're broken into clean shiny [Music] cups each egg in its own cup for inspection after which they're ready to be poured into the mixer oh but there are other things as well yes fresh milk from selected British dairy [Music] farm the fresh milk is brought to the factory and churns but didn't you say there was malt too yes malt from the best British barley the Mal is brought to the factory then all these ingredients are weighed the freshest eggs full cream milk malt of the highest grade athing British and poured into the [Music] mixer the resultant mixture next goes through an evaporating process that it is only to be broken up packed into air tight tin and placed into [Music] Caron and that's what you'll start doing tomorrow these are the rooms where the born Vita is actually packed in paperline tins this is done by a very special process then the tins are brought here to be packed into cartons for [Music] dispatch and that's what I shall start doing tomorrow born v eh what if F they're all always thinking of something fresh and new and health-giving to put in the market why then never still even now their cocoa and chocolates are being dispatched all over the world and to all sorts and conditions of [Music] people [Music] la [Music] la