IN DEPTH
MVR was formed in 1921 when the Board of Trade wanted to re-unite milk churns with their owners after the pooling arrangements during the First World War. The problem of churns, bottles, crates etc. being mis-used by dairies was also acute. Read the history of this non-profit Company here.
1922, first AGM of Milk Vessels Recovery Ltd. from Dairy World and British Dairy Farmer (Courtesy LIBRAL)
1961 Forest Road, Walthamstow during widening works; the Bedford belonged to ‘Milk Vessels Recovery Ltd’ who moved empty glass milk bottles around. Their base was inconveniently located at the end of a road at Tottenham Hale virtually buried inside the vast Gestetner factory. (Courtesy Peter John Morris, FB)
1972 Milk Vessels Recovery (MVR)
