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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.
The dairy used horse-drawn delivery floats until 1985, and between 1944 and 1950 employed the future actor Sean Connery as a milkman, earning him his nickname "the Edinburgh Milkman". The former department store in Bread Street
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 ...
Fiesta Parade Floats, which has built award-winning floats for nearly 40 years, will shut down amid financial hardships and its inability to meet Tournament of Roses standards.
Hearse: The horse-drawn version of a modern hearse. Herdic: A specific type of horse-drawn carriage, used as an omnibus. Irish jaunting car, or outside car (1890–1900) Jaunting car: a sprung cart in which passengers sat back to back with their feet outboard of the wheels. Karozzin: a traditional Maltese carriage drawn by one horse or a pair
The cart was also relatively safe, being difficult to either fall from, overturn, or to injure oneself with either the horse or wheels. The governess cart was a relatively late development in horse-drawn vehicles, appearing around 1900 as a substitute for the dogcart. These were a similar light cart, but their high exposed seats had a poor ...