The National Joint Council for the Flour Milling Industry published a series of technical booklets for 1926 until the outbreak of the Second World War. These informative pamphlets were the Bibles for a generation of flour millers and are a fascinating reminder of the state of milling technology in the pre-war years:
1. Power
2. Some basic principles of flour-milling
3. Flour quality: its nature and control; E. A. Fisher
4. Elements of science for milling students; J. Twomey
5. Pests in wheat and its products; Sebert Humphries
6. The roller mill as used in the milling of wheaten flour; J. R. Birch
7. The development of the modern British roller mill; H. Marston
8. Fire insurance practice applied to British flour mills; H. Leighton
9. The wheats of commerce I: general considerations; E. A. Fisher and C. R. Jones
10. The wheats of commerce II: commercial wheat classes; E. A. Fisher and C. R. Jones
11. A historical study of wheat conditioning; W. S. Thompson
12. Purification; E. Alan Williams
13. Grinders; John Nattrass
14. A microscopial examination of wheat grain; Col. Brereton Fairclough
15. Baking: a simple exposition with special attention to common faults, bakers’ complaints etc. and a short treatment on test baking; D. W. Kent-Jones
16. The handling and storing of grain in bulk; Ernest Bealing