Visit to the Lyons Tea Factory, 1920s - Archive Film 1048220

This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1048220 in our Film # search bar: https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ Visit to the Lyons Tea factory, Greenford, Middlesex near London on the Great Union Canal by Edward, Prince of Wales 1920s. With intertitles.The Prince gets out of his car outside the factory, staff and girl guides are waiting outside. He is greeted by Alfred Salmon, Chairman of the company. He shakes hands with guide leaders. In the yard he meets war veterans of the factory, behind them are Lyons vans advertising tea and cocoa. One of the men passes him a piece of paper to read then returns it to his pocket. The Prince is accompanied by men wearing bowler hats. He shakes hands with one of the war veterans who wears his medals on his coat.A bungalow door opens and a nurse and another woman come out, the woman walks away and the nurse goes back inside, this is the welfare surgery. Inside the building a man and woman sit at a table and a receptionist sits at a desk. A sign on a door reads Dental Surgery. A dentist treats a patient in a chair as a nurse looks on.A sign on a door reads Manicure. Two manicurists with covered heads treat the nails of two young women, who also wear scarves to cover their hair. Another sign on a door reads Chiropody. A chiropodist treats a man's feet with a machine. Another sign reads First Aid. A nurse treats a man laying in a chair in a surgery.The Prince, wearing a bowler hat and carrying an umbrella walks in the yard with factory bosses. Tea in chests from canal narrowboats are winched into the warehouse with an overhead crane. Two men open a crate of tea with tools. Two women with scarves on their heads working in the factory, one takes samples of the tea and one pours water from a boiling kettle. Long benches in the factory, three men in suits taste the produce. Sacks in the factory. The Prince and the other members of the party go downstairs. Aerial view of machines and