08-06-2021, 11:30 PM
Hi Mike and all
We are all showing our ages. I had not considered a local farmer supplying a small settlement directly. We had dairy factories large and small everywhere but direct to a rural community would avoid a lot of travel. Prior 1950 in a town of about 10,000 our milk arrived in a billy but I do not recall ever seeing the milkman. I think the billy was left on the porch with the money.
Into the 50s a local farmer had a bedraggled early Seven with a tray used to carry the large milk cans from the milking shed to the roadside collection platform. I was intrigued that a truck tray could be almost all behind the axle, although modern 4 door utes like that.
We are all showing our ages. I had not considered a local farmer supplying a small settlement directly. We had dairy factories large and small everywhere but direct to a rural community would avoid a lot of travel. Prior 1950 in a town of about 10,000 our milk arrived in a billy but I do not recall ever seeing the milkman. I think the billy was left on the porch with the money.
Into the 50s a local farmer had a bedraggled early Seven with a tray used to carry the large milk cans from the milking shed to the roadside collection platform. I was intrigued that a truck tray could be almost all behind the axle, although modern 4 door utes like that.