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Financial record - INVOICE COLLECTION: Foggitt Jones Pty. Ltd
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The company was founded in 1904 when Charles Emanuel Foggitt and Thomas Llewellyn Jones left food manufacturer J.C.Hutton. Together they took over the floundering Oxley factory. Within five years their trade in ham, bacon, cheese, and related foodstuffs, was worth over £1,000,000 a year. They paid over-award wages, premises were scrupulously clean, and their products filled banquet halls and kitchens across the country.
Foggitt ran the processing. He was born to a farming family in Yorkshire, England, in 1865. Two of his sons served on the western front in the First World War, and his third son in the Second World War earning a Distinguished Service Cross and Mentioned in Despatches. His brother-in-law was William Bertram, the long-time Labor member and speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Foggitt didn’t live to witness the crowning glory however. He died in 1926, the year before his company with partner Thomas Jones as chairman of directors, took over his old employer J.C.Hutton.
Jones himself passed away in 1946. With the founders gone, after a while so too was the passion. The holding company United Provisions Ltd changed its name to Huttons, eventually selling its operations, and delisting from the stock exchange.
Jones ran the business. He was born to a radical family in Welshpool, Wales, in 1872. His father was a strong radical before the labor movement was founded, and his grandfather was a militant chartist who narrowly escaped transportation. Jones was elected as a Labor member to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1915, defeating the then premier. He was subsequently appointed to the Legislative Council. In his spare time he served as commodore of Royal Queensland Yacht Club.All printed in tan ink on thick cream paper. Each with two holes punched in the left side of the page.
10934.31a - receipt number G27 or 79908
Receipt dated: 9th August 1940
The receipt header reads "Bought of Foggitt Jones Pty. Ltd. Rex" in capital letters. The header also reads: ham and bacon curers. Packers of rex Canned Delicacies and Luncheon Cheese - Cheese merchants.
Above the company name, it lists the company's:
Locations - "Also at: - Brisbane, Oxley, Sydney, Maitland, Newcastle, Melbourne, Adelaide, Littlehampton, Perth, Fremantle and Bellevue."
This receipt is from their Bendigo location.
Addresses - registered office: 34 King Street, Melbourne.
Contact Info - Phone 1488
Telegrams: Foggitt Jones, Golden Square.
Correspondence to P.O. Box 195, Bendigo.
receipt items typed in black ink.
For the purchase of 3 backs, Aust Sge, Saveloys etc.
Purchased for the price of: 4 pounds, 15 shillings and 7 pence.
10934.31b - receipt number G9 or 79565
Receipt dated: 5th August 1940
The receipt header reads "Bought of Foggitt Jones Pty. Ltd. Rex" in capital letters. The header also reads: ham and bacon curers. Packers of rex Canned Delicacies and Luncheon Cheese - Cheese merchants.
Above the company name, it lists the company's:
Locations - "Also at: - Brisbane, Oxley, Sydney, Maitland, Newcastle, Melbourne, Adelaide, Littlehampton, Perth, Fremantle and Bellevue."
This receipt is from their Bendigo location.
Addresses - registered office: 34 King Street, Melbourne.
Contact Info - Phone 1488
Telegrams: Foggitt Jones, Golden Square.
Correspondence to P.O. Box 195, Bendigo.
receipt items typed in black ink.
For the purchase of 6 backs bacon, saveloys etc.
Purchased for the price of: 5 pounds, 14 shillings and 4 pence.
10934.31c - receipt number G38 or 80159
Receipt dated: 13th August 1940
The receipt header reads "Bought of Foggitt Jones Pty. Ltd. Rex" in capital letters. The header also reads: ham and bacon curers. Packers of rex Canned Delicacies and Luncheon Cheese - Cheese merchants.
Above the company name, it lists the company's:
Locations - "Also at: - Brisbane, Oxley, Sydney, Maitland, Newcastle, Melbourne, Adelaide, Littlehampton, Perth, Fremantle and Bellevue."
This receipt is from their Bendigo location.
Addresses - registered office: 34 King Street, Melbourne.
Contact Info - Phone 1488
Telegrams: Foggitt Jones, Golden Square.
Correspondence to P.O. Box 195, Bendigo.
receipt items typed in black ink.
For the purchase of 2 backs bacon, Saveloys etc.
Purchased for the price of: 2 pounds, 7 shillings and 6 pence.
10934.31d - receipt number G70 or 79420
Receipt dated: 2nd August 1940
The receipt header reads "Bought of Foggitt Jones Pty. Ltd. Rex" in capital letters. The header also reads: ham and bacon curers. Packers of rex Canned Delicacies and Luncheon Cheese - Cheese merchants.
Above the company name, it lists the company's:
Locations - "Also at: - Brisbane, Oxley, Sydney, Maitland, Newcastle, Melbourne, Adelaide, Littlehampton, Perth, Fremantle and Bellevue."
This receipt is from their Bendigo location.
Addresses - registered office: 34 King Street, Melbourne.
Contact Info - Phone 1488
Telegrams: Foggitt Jones, Golden Square.
Correspondence to P.O. Box 195, Bendigo.
receipt items typed in black ink.
For the purchase of 2 backs bacon, Aust Sge, Saveloys etc.
Purchased for the price of: 3 pounds, 8 shillings and 4 pence.bendigo, morton's stores, foggitt jones pty ltd
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