bottlebugs
Well-Known Member
I was surprised to learn that Chas Wilson was an authorized bottler of Pepsi,
before, during and after WW2...I was unaware of this until I saw a bottle
on FeeBay the other day...
They also used their own bottles....the story goes, that to continue production
during the wartime sugar rationing they used raw chocolate bar sugar for their
non Wilson brands, including Pepsi.
Question...did they use quart bottles like this before the 1930s? Why not? The
bottles they used up until 1929 probably survived into the 1930s or 40s. Glass
was being rationed too.
Like Hinds & Son out of Orillia, did they have a deal with Pepsi back in the 1920s too?
I would be surprised to learn that only Orillia (a small town outside of Toronto) was the
only town that Roy Megargel, a Wall Street broker, would have approached to expand
Pepsi's territory. I was in sales. I started with the big towns first. I did notice a trend
as well; the 1920s bottlers of Pepsi, signed back on the minute Pepsi was successful
again in the 1930s. Their American bottlers did. So did Hinds out of Orillia. So did
Wilson's out of Toronto? There's not enough printed history on Wilson's but the news
hounds out there may find an advert for Pepsi by Wilson's from the 1920s. Or better yet,
a detailed history from the 1920s. I have not one, but three overside labels Pepsi labels
from the 1920s ( and a spare cap). If I am right, this would make a fine placeholder until
my Hinds bottle surfaces.
Thanks in advance experts. I knew I would have to be educated before this last wish
was granted. Those bottle Genies...sigh...
before, during and after WW2...I was unaware of this until I saw a bottle
on FeeBay the other day...
They also used their own bottles....the story goes, that to continue production
during the wartime sugar rationing they used raw chocolate bar sugar for their
non Wilson brands, including Pepsi.
Question...did they use quart bottles like this before the 1930s? Why not? The
bottles they used up until 1929 probably survived into the 1930s or 40s. Glass
was being rationed too.
Like Hinds & Son out of Orillia, did they have a deal with Pepsi back in the 1920s too?
I would be surprised to learn that only Orillia (a small town outside of Toronto) was the
only town that Roy Megargel, a Wall Street broker, would have approached to expand
Pepsi's territory. I was in sales. I started with the big towns first. I did notice a trend
as well; the 1920s bottlers of Pepsi, signed back on the minute Pepsi was successful
again in the 1930s. Their American bottlers did. So did Hinds out of Orillia. So did
Wilson's out of Toronto? There's not enough printed history on Wilson's but the news
hounds out there may find an advert for Pepsi by Wilson's from the 1920s. Or better yet,
a detailed history from the 1920s. I have not one, but three overside labels Pepsi labels
from the 1920s ( and a spare cap). If I am right, this would make a fine placeholder until
my Hinds bottle surfaces.
Thanks in advance experts. I knew I would have to be educated before this last wish
was granted. Those bottle Genies...sigh...
