British 24 hour ration box.

[Naaficook]

Quickly googled and found this :

"Barker and Dobson began trading in 1834. They were a husband and wife team, Barker was his surname and Dobson was her maiden name. They opened a sweet shop in Paradise Street in Liverpool. They stocked sweets and chocolates manufactured by other but prided themselves on only stocking the very best quality confections, some of them imported from Europe."

"It was two grandsons of the founders, Henry and Percy Jacobson who grew the business into a large company. They were the first to introduce individually wrapped sweets and under their leadership , by 1939 the company was manufacturing around 450 different types of sweets! To ensure that their sweets met their exacting quality standards Henry and Percy personally sampled sweets every morning until they died in 1961 aged 95 and 90 respectively - just illustrating how efficacious their delicious sweets were!"

"Barker and Dobsons brand leader was Everton Mints which are justly popular today, we also stock their delicious Blackcurrant and Liquorice sweets among others. Barker and Dobson now belong to Trebor Basset."

"In 1999 Trebor Bassett created Monkhill Confectionery , a seperate company, to look after traditional brands like Barker & Dobson."

[armorrich]

contents...

Great pictures of the contents....thanks for taking the time to set them up and post them......too bad the sweets are decomposing.....the chocolate seems to be lasting ok though......best, rich

[GregB]

I've never seen that.... but as the instructionsheet is printed on both sides it would make it difficult to read both sides !

There is another type of instruction sheet used in the 24hr. rations that is printed on one side, the "Read Before You Feed" sheet is the one I'm asking about being glued into the top inside lid of a 24hr. ration box.

[nickwall]

This is an example made by JOHNS SON & WATTS 1944, in the D-Day museum Southsea.

[GCR817]

Gentlemen,

Hear is a Canadian 24 hr ration from my collection. All the contents are present and conclude a variety of food stuffs, candies, smokes, a ration cooker/stand, etc etc. I especially like the wooden fork and the fact that the instructions are in both French and English.

Cheers,

Geoff

[GCR817]

Contents

The interior

[48RMC]

Geoff,
Wowww that must be a very rare 24 hour ration tin included with the contents
Cheers Chris

[sgt_rock]

Hello. Does anyone have any pictures or information on the WW2 British army issue 1 man 24 hour rations cardboard carton, as issued on D-Day?

Hi you can try here http://reprorations.com/Britain%20WW2/WW2-Britain.htm , they sell reproduction rations for re-enactors