Milk Float No. 11

Dairy Crest Milk Float

Originally uploaded by Black Telephone

Another Milk Float I have been wanting to ‘get’. Yes I know it is another Smiths Elizabethan but this one is used on a franchised round operated by ‘Denvilles Dairy’ according to the yellow headboard. Franchised rounds are quite rare these days as they have been proven to be more costly to the Dairy than managing the round themselves.

I think I have gone as far as I can photographing Milk Floats in my area so I have decided to make some videos instead! My first video should appear on my YouTube website on Friday.

Milk Float Bonanza!

Dairy Crest Milk Float

Originally uploaded by Black Telephone

Today I went to visit my local dairy to photograph more Milk Floats and successfully taken no.s 8, 9 and 10! This includes a type I have not captured before – a Smiths Cabac. This is the earlier version of the Elizabethan. I believe this is the only Cabac at this depot, the rest being Smiths Elizabethans and Wales & Edwards Rangemasters. The other two I took today were Smiths Elizabethans, one each in the current Dairy Crest livery and the old Unigate livery. Certainly worth waiting the gails for! For my full collection of Milk Float photographs, please visit this page!

Milk Float No. 7

Dairy Crest Milk Float

Originally uploaded by Black Telephone

I now have yet another Milk Float to my photographic collection! This timewarp Smiths Elizabethan Milk Float is owned by Dairy Crest but is still painted in the old Co-op livery complete with the Co-ops slogan ‘A Fresh Way To Shop’. These are the style of Milk Floats that I remember when I was younger and I am very happy at least one has survived to the present.