M&P O'Sullivan Ltd 100 Years

M. & P. O’Sullivan, Celebrating 100 Years, 1905-2005
We had the government contracts for tobacco supply. I remember the process: placing dry tobacco leaves into a
baking tin adding a certain amount of moisture, putting a steel plate put on top of the leave and, then another layer
of tobacco leaves on top of it. The cake was then pressed in steam pressers and put in ovens and baked. When baked,
the cake was cut into plugs and then into individual wrappers. We also manufactured snuff, High Toast and Cork
snuff. The leaf was stripped by hand from the stems. The leaf was used to manufacture Plug and twist (often used
for chewing). The stems were then toasted for a full day in front of an open fire, crushed in a snuff mill to either a
coarse or fine finish. Trading tobacco in our shop on Princes Street was an integral part of that street. As time went
on, it became the last key tobacco shop to survive in the city”.
Staff at the Tobacco Factory, 1927
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