Bottle
Production date
1976-1988
Description
A clear glass bottle of Sykes Green Ginger Cordial. The bottle is sealed with a white plastic screw cap and still contains its original contents. Two purple labels with a white border are on the bottle. " COMPOUND CORDIAL / sykes / GREEN GINGER / CORDIAL / NET CONTENTS 730ml / COLOUR ADDED / CONTAINS / PRESERVATIVE / WESTERN BOTTLING CO. LTD. KATERE ROAD. NEW PLYMOUTH " is written on the large label " sykes " is written on the smaller label.
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Object detail
For more than a century, three generations of Sykes worked at Alfred's factory on King St, and there they produced a raft of things. Some of the most memorable were Sykes's Cordials, Cura Cough, Sykol Suntan Lotion, Fruit Essences, the ubiquitous Leswork household cleaning products and Sykes's cattle drench.
After many of their other products were hit by radical licensing changes the company increasingly concentrated on expanding their best selling cordials and supplying wood alcohol to chemists and hospitals. The name of the company changed to Sykes Cordials in 1968 and in 1976 the business was sold to Western Bottling Company Ltd who sold it to Oasis Industries in 1988. The cordials were produced for a while longer by a bottling company in Auckland, then on-sold to Sentry Hill Wines of Lepperton.
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