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Horse-drawn milk float in the Milestones Museum. A float is a form of two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, often with a dropped axle to give an especially low load-bed. They were intended for use by deliverymen and the carrying of heavy or unstable items such as milk churns. [1] [2]: 123 [3]: 124 [4]: 79
An electric milk float in Liverpool city centre, June 2005 A horse-drawn milk float in Montreal, Quebec, in 1942 Horse-drawn milk float, c. 1904, with dropped axle A Dairy Crest Smith's Elizabethan milk float Wooden milk cart in the Irish Agricultural Museum A Dairy Crest Ford-Transit–based milk float A Dairy Crest ex-Unigate Wales & Edwards Rangemaster milk float
A milk float. Horse-drawn vehicles were used for local delivery from the inception of the first milk round in about 1860. These were still seen in Britain and parts of the United States in the mid-twentieth century, until replaced by motorized vehicles.
His company became the Express Dairy Co. Ltd. in 1881, and he was knighted in 1904 for his services to the dairy industry. Mr Lewis began building milk floats, milk carts and horse-drawn vehicles for Express Dairies in 1873, and his business became a limited company in 1899. The first chairman of the new company was Mr. Titus Barham, George's ...
Morrison-Electricar was a British manufacturer of milk floats and other battery electric road vehicles (BERV). Their first vehicle was built for a bakery in 1933, and the company ceased to exist when it was finally sold to M & M Electric Vehicles of Atherstone in 1983.
Wales & Edwards was a British manufacturer of milk floats based in Harlescott, Shrewsbury. They were particularly well known for their three wheelers. It was one of the oldest milk float manufacturers lasting from the early 1940s to the early 1990s. In 1989, the company was acquired by Smith Electric Vehicles.
Working Drawings of Horse-drawn Vehicles: From the collection of the Carriage Museum of America. Carriage Museum of America. 1998. ISBN 9781880499061. World on Wheels: Studies in the Manufacture, History, Use, Conservation, and Restoration of Horse-drawn Vehicles. Carriage Association of America. 2009. OCLC 879573785.
Horse drawn milk floats generally carried one or more milk churns on a low platform which the milkman would use to fill customers' jugs. Reusable milk bottles only arrived in quantity in the 30s, and my mother can still remember buying milk from an old style churn in the 50s. --Ef80 14:15, 17 June 2012 (UTC)