Milk float

[Mike Hall]

Who remembers these.
I used to drive one when i was a milkman in Maidstone


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[Ivan Cloherty]

Ernie has been looking everywhere for that!

[Chris Gundry]

Hi Mike I also drove one of those for Horlicks dairy's in Weston S Mare in 1964 .

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Mike.
We have just started watching 'Open All Hours' once again, and last night watched Granville as he went to kiss the milk girl driving one of those, but it was a bloke.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

My brother drove one for a couple of years, had to give it away as he got chilblain son his feet from the cold.

[James Curry]

There is a company on Wirral , Moreton Dairies still use them , or certainly did until fairly recently. Think they replaced the lead acid batteries?

[Keith Tindell]

The milk float was a lifeline to many in the Uk, in very rural places, especially for the elderly, as we know, it was not just milk, but bread spuds, all sorts of veg etc. there was something special about briefly wakening in the morning to hear the chink of milk being delivered, and the electric cart rattling away. come down in the winter, get the milk from the doorstep, frozen and the cream bulging out of the lid, or pecked through the lid where the birds had learned to take a easy meal.all condemned to history.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Wearing thongs must run in the family John.
Des

[j.sabourn]

I always called them flip flops Des styled on the Japanese footwear of keeping the big toe in solitary confinement so as not to catch foot rot from the other Four. Thongs I always likened to the boot laces some ladies wore around their waists in lieu of more appropriate apparel. Naughty but nice unless you were a cross dresser . JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
Both equally as bad for ones health.
Des