We called em 'Spam cans' West Country Pacific 'Wells'

Many of us of my age will remember the concept

of SPAM and the tin in which it was preserved.

A mixture of Salt pork and ham compressed

tightly in a semi triangular tin. It was the

meat of those days just after the war and

lasted well into the 1950's. I well remember

it fried and it was great that way but I was never

too keen on it straight from the tin. Developed as

rations for the US troops in WW2, in times of shortage

after the war it was a godsend for mum's struggling to

feeds hungry mouths. 

 

 

So the semi triangular tin had roughly the section of

smooth case of the Southern Railway Pacific's.

 

Here 'Wells' runs back at Oxenhope.

 

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