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Smiths & Crisps

Frank Smith was a manager of a grocery company in London in the early 1900’s. The company was called carters and the owner had brought back from France a thinly-sliced potato cooked in oil. The two men decided to market them in paper bags at 2d per packet. Sales were however very slow and soon Frank branched out on his own and when he added the famous salt wrapped in blue paper this quickly became its trademark. Further factories were opened and automation took hold improving their profitability to such an extent that they began swallowing up their competitors. I've not found a pack in recent years so we assume they’ve ceased production - unless of course you know differently!

ADRIAN LADD Smiths crisps was taken over by Walkers in 1979,which is why you have not seen them about. However, having just put Smiths Crisps into a search engine I find they can be bought online.
Apparently Frank Smith originally sold his crisps around the pubs of Cricklewood and took salt cellars with him, but as these were regularly stolen he came up with the twist of paper.

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