Somerville and McCormick's Candy Wrapping Machine
Datec. 1950
DimensionsOverall: 138 × 78 × 71.1 cm (1.38 × 0.78 × 0.71 m)
Credit LineGift of Mr. Gary Koreen, 2002
Object number2002.026.002
Label TextThis is an O Pee Chee company candy wrapping machine. C. R. Somerville, a McCormick Company accountant, set up a box company in 1886 to make packaging and paper boxes for local companies. He expanded into producing confectionery products. In the 1890s, he introduced a gum line that he later sold to Wrigley's in 1910. Former Somerville managers, John McKinnon McDermid and Duncan Hugh McDermid, bought it back in 1911 and renamed it O-Pee-Chee. They operated out of the Somerville plant until 1928 when they built their Adelaide Street factory nearby. After the McDermid's retired, Frank Leahy took over. Shortly thereafter, Leahy sold the box works to the Weston Company and concentrated on the gum and candy business. The family sold the O-Pee-Chee company to Nestle in 1996.
NameMachine, Packaging
After 1946
c. 1919-1924
1960s-1970s