GB : Perfin : Uh : ID?

The Aus Cinderella Club is looking to ID "UH"
anybody?
This month a write up of "inter-planetary space mail"

I have some scans, if you have any, why not pop over
to cinderellas section in SCF and post?

The UH perfin on cover:

Douglas would know. Send him an email?

Cheers Joshua,
may just do that.

It's from Unilever Ltd in London where UH stands for "Unilever House".

Does SCF ever fail ? :)
brilliant
I'll pass this on with due acknowledgement, Nigel.
Thanks.

This may make sense to Aussies,
Unilever were the producers of home products
of soap, and one soap was "Solvol" it was a kind of
soap that had sand/grit like stuff in it.
Great for washing the hands when you have just given
the car an oil change.

The stamps/cinderellas someone suggested were a
product of a soap company.

Solvol is still going strong, and available in supermarkets and elsewhere. We have a bar of it under the kitchen sink. Since 2000 the brand was acquired by the WD-40 Company.

Huge in the USA also, Rod.

They make soaps: Dove, Lux, Lifebouy -- and they make Vaseline!

I find this thread great because not only did I learn about the GB perfin 'UH' and interplanetary mail, I also remembered that I have a couple interesting covers from another Soap Company. Does anyone know if the two are related in some way?








I hope it is alright I am catching a ride on the coat-tails of this thread, seemed like a good place to pop a few scans!

Have a Good One,

Skilo54

And, hopefully somewhere else, far, far away from the soapworks, they are big into ice cream, too.

Hi Skilo,
brilliant, right on the mark.

I once saw a short film on how the atomic bomb worked,
illustrated by a huge room of mouse traps, when one snapped shut
it flew in the air, and triggered two more, which flew in the air....
You get the story :)

Threads often go that way, fly off in all directions.

New Pin Soaps was bought by Unilever in 1925


Our history

Unilever archives

1885-1900s

1920s
By the end of the 1920s Jurgens owns margarine factories in Scotland, Ireland and England and Lord Leverhulme controls 60% of the output of UK soap manufacturing.

Unilever is formed
But during the decade the margarine market suffers declining demand as butter becomes more affordable.

Before his death in 1925, Lever Brothers founder Lord Leverhulme builds up a private portfolio of companies that include some dealing with produce from his newly acquired estate in Scotland's Western Isles. Many of these, including Mac Fisheries Ltd, will eventually be bought by Lever Brothers.

At the end of the decade alliances reach their ultimate conclusion and the official history of Unilever begins. First, Jurgens and Van den Bergh join together to create Margarine Unie. Then two years later - in one of the largest mergers of its time - Margarine Unie teams up with Lever Brothers to create Unilever.

Highlights
1920 Lever Brothers gains control of the Niger Company, which later became part of the United Africa Company.

1922 Lever Brothers buys Wall's, a popular sausage company which is beginning to produce ice cream to sell in the summer when demand for sausages falls.

1923 The collapse of the German economy creates even harsher trading conditions for Jurgens and Van den Bergh.

1925 Lever Brothers buys British Oil & Cake Mills, one of its major competitors and the manufacturer of New Pin Soap.

1926 Lever Brothers launches its Clean Hands Campaign. Part of its child health policy, it educates children about dirt and germs and encouraging them to wash their hands 'before breakfast, before dinner and after school.'

1927 Jurgens and Van den Bergh, who have already teamed up with two European businesses, Centra and Schicht, join forces to create Margarine Unie - the Margarine Union. The union quickly gains new members, creating a large group of European businesses involved in the production of almost all goods created from oils and fats.

Planters Ltd, a Lever Brothers company, launches the first vitamin-enriched margarine - Viking.

1928 Margarine Unie acquires the French-Dutch Calvé-Delft group with factories in the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Czechoslovakia. The following year the Union also acquires the firm Hartog's.

1929 On 2 September Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie sign an agreement to create Unilever. The businesses initially aim to negotiate an arrangement to keep out of each other's principal interests of soap and margarine production, but ultimately decide on an amalgamation instead.

Ice cream starting in 1922? Who knew?

..and sausages too,
I wonder why sausage sales dropped in summer?
trade is curious sometimes,
I suppose we shall be reading into the failure of
bricks and mortar (hard) retail sites, with the advent
of internet shopping in another 100 years.

I wonder how close we got, historically, to a legend of a World's Fair at which a sausage seller, unable to shift his product, collaborated with the ice cream seller in the neighboring stall to place three scoops of ice cream into a sausage bun.

Not close...he put it on a stick, and retired a gajillionaire.

Do our friends across the oceans have the summer fairs with the ridiculous "foods" on a stick? Fried Twinkies? Fried Snickers? Fried butter? Fried beer? Stop me when you think I'm making them up...not close yet...

We have Pluto Pups - battered saveloys on a stick.

"Ice cream starting in 1922? Who knew?"
Ice cream was around long before 1922:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream

Pears Soap made a contribution to philately:

http://www.stamp.demon.co.uk/Philat...earsSoap.htm