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United Dairies Milk Tank

Tags: National Railway Museum, Weekend away, York

10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 28th 2011

10 Responses to “United Dairies Milk Tank”

Bob T Bear (esq) says:

November 29, 2011 at 2:45 am

Cool!

I was going to leave it at that, but it told me my comment was too short!

So- coolio!
- CherryPie says:
  
  November 29, 2011 at 6:33 pm
  
  My blog is greedy, it likes more than one word
  
  The only way to drink milk is ‘cool’.
....peter:) says:

November 29, 2011 at 7:11 am

What is it doing in the museum Cherie… we still have them on the tracks here in Canada lol… good shot….peter:)
- CherryPie says:
  
  November 29, 2011 at 6:34 pm
  
  I think they would probably say we had the wrong type of tracks now
Bernard says:

November 29, 2011 at 10:55 am

I remember these well.
Cadbury’s used to get most of the milk delivered this way.
There were great lines of them in the sidings at Bournville.
Later, they had road milk-tankers.
Now?
I wouldn’t mind betting it arrives as a dried powder! Yuk!
- CherryPie says:
  
  November 29, 2011 at 6:50 pm
  
  I bet that was a great sight to see.
  
  I am not sure about the delivery but it seems they still use fresh milk!
  
  http://www.cadbury.co.uk/cadburyandchocolate/howchocolateismade/Pages/howmilkchocismade.aspx
  - Bernard says:
    
    November 30, 2011 at 9:54 am
    
    Thanks for that link. It was as I guessed sent to Bournville as a dried ‘crumbs’!
    “The mixture (milk & cocoa) is dried in vacuum ovens to become milk chocolate ‘crumb’.”
    “The milk chocolate crumb is taken to Cadbury chocolate factories…”
    It comes from Hereford – hence no milk tankers in Bournville Lane.
    - CherryPie says:
      
      November 30, 2011 at 8:36 pm
      
      Ah I misunderstood where the milk was dried I thought that was at Bournville.
      
      But I am glad you worked out and were explain the proper process
J_on_tour says:

December 3, 2011 at 8:30 am

I remember I had one of these when I had a train set when I was little. That train set has a lot to answer for these days !!
- CherryPie says:
  
  December 3, 2011 at 10:50 am
  
  The kids don’t seem to be into trains in quite the same way these days do they?