The one horse milk float.

The one horse milk float.

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Up until the end of World War two the single horse drawn milk float was still widely used by local farmers to sell their milk to country folk. Of course in the big cities and towns large dairies had sprung up with their milk being supplied mainly from the west-country by either tanker lorry, or via what was known as the milk train full of churns of milk. With the advent of TT milk the use of glass milk bottles became the norm. I do remember my maternal grandmother in the 1930’s still having her milk delivered by milk float and the milkman measuring it out using either a half or full pint measure into jugs that my grandmother kept her milk in. It was then placed in her cool larder with a muslin cover with small beads sewn around the edge to keep the cover in place.