Revisiting Bryce's Home Made Bread

What appears to be the business end of a Bryce's Home Made Bread facility

Longtime readers may recall that back around this time in 2014 I posted some pictures of Bryce's Home Made Bread that my uncle, William Henry Wood, took in the 1940s. While on my current dig through family photos I think I may have unearthed some photos of what appears to be another Bryce's facility. 

You might ask why didn't I find these on my first pass through the photos 9 years ago? Because I didn't know what I was looking at, didn't examine them with a magnifying glass, and the photos don't appear to have any organization. They're just scattered here-and-there throughout a variety of albums. I know a bit more now about what I'm looking at in these pictures, so new aspects pop out that I didn't appreciate before.

Cropped version of the opening photo

The connection to Bryce's was clear once I closely looked at the logos on the wagons and truck.

The wagon on blocks (on the right) has written on the side: Bryce's Bread

The wagon on the left doesn't appear to have a company logo, but the one up on blocks to the right does.

'Bryce's Bread' appears on the truck

The same logo that's on the derelict wagon appears on the truck.

A slightly modernized delivery wagon

The deal was sealed when I stumbled across the above photo.

A cropping of the previous photo. That's Mr. Bill Paterson on the right

The other tip off was the presence of Mr. Bill Paterson as he accompanied my uncle on this audit trip.

Outside Bryce's. Left to right: Mr. W. B. Foster, Bill Paterson, William Henry Wood

In the above photo we also saw Mr. W. B. Foster standing for a portrait outside the other Bryce's Facility.

A cleaned up and cropped version of the previous photo

The next 3 photos give an interesting view of an office inside the building. No PCs, laptops, smartphones, or much of anything we'd associated with today's office life.

My uncle with a mountain of paper work

I suspect the two were having a good time staging the next two photos, but if nothing else you get a good idea of what typical office equipment was like in the 1940s.

My uncle again with a lot less paper, and many more office tools. That thing that looks like a tire beside his elbow is likely an ash tray

And here's Mr. Paterson taking his turn at the desk:

Bill Paterson looking concerned

As I've noted before, the puzzling continues.

[21 Nov 2023 update: I discovered another photo album with annotated photographs. It turns out this facility was located in Calgary, not Winnipeg, and the photos were shot on August 4, 1944.]