A French’s flour AEC Mammoth Major Eight. J.W. French owned flour mills in Bow, east London, Lots Road Chelsea, and Ware. In the 1960s it became part of a joint venture with J. Lyons of Cadby Hall for supplying 50% of Lyons’ flour requirements, and later in that decade Lyons and French had another joint venture with the baking division of the CWS. In about 1970 Spillers became involved by buying the three French’s mills, along with some of the CWS flour mills and there was then a period of rationalisation with only the Ware mill surviving until it too was closed in 1983. I worked for Spillers at that time and the Ware mill closure caused me quite a challenge involving a famous pie and mash business in London’s East Ham High Street. But I digress…
The 43 bus route is from Friern Barnet to London Bridge station