Story: Food and beverage manufacturing

Trays of bread

Two bakers lift a massive tray of bread loaves into an Auckland bread-factory oven in the mid-1940s.

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Sarah Wilcox, Food and beverage manufacturing – Bread, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22994/trays-of-bread (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Sarah Wilcox, published 3 March 2010.