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  • Collection: Thornbers collection

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Cyril Thornber on the right.

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Eggs being conveyed from setters via a candling tent to the incubators, infertile eggs being removed at the table during the process.

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Cyril Thornber at a publicity event to launch the new 909 breed.

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The Elliott 803 computer was installed in the early 1960s to analyse the vast amount of data obtained through the breeding trials.

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An Elliott 803 Computer was used to analyse the vast amount of data obtained in the breeding trials.

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Paper tape readers in the computer room at Thornbers.

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Cragg road runs across the bottom of the picture, and Dean Hey is to the bottom right of the picture.

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Mrs Dorothy Thornber in her state of the art Kitchen.

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The incubators are on the right, the chicks are hatched, checked, sexed and packed for delivery all inside one day.
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