1910's? Reece's Liverpool Creamery (Courtesy Don Reid)
1920's Surrey Sterilised Milk Company, prior to Express Dairy takeover (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1933 Direct Farm Supply Tank AGX 855, Fleet: 126. Allan Bedford comments "This magnificent, AEC Mammoth Major, chassis no 668173, was new in March 1933, as fleet no 126, AGX 855. The tank was built by Hopkins and the streamlined cab by Butterfields, at a total cost of £2,579. The valancing on the tank added approximately 3cwt to the total ULW of 7.2.5. Whether this remained intact during its 13-year service life is doubtful. The vehicle appears to have retained its petrol engine to the end and, on its last thorough overhaul in June 1943, a total of £825 was spent. Passing to T&F Motors in July 1946, it realised £600." (Courtesy Phillip Budd)
1930s AEC 'Direct Farm Supply Insulated Tank' Co:171. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1930's Henry Edwards Road-Rail Tank, built to LMS pattern 1989,operated from Pipegate Creamery. (Courtesy Matthew Pinto, Milk on the Rails, Photo: Glen Woods)
1930's ? early tanker, Co Reg 129. Matthew Pinto comments "I think the location is Faringdon in Oxfordshire. I believe this was ED's first dispatching creamery; prior to this they bought milk from independent creameries and distributed it." (Courtesy Craig Wells)
1930 four-wheeled tanker: from album showing 30 years of progress in transport fleet. (Express News July 1956)
1930 Cricklewood Opening Brochure Illustration-Glass Lined Tanker
1930's Dennis Tanker GW 2398, Co Reg: 144 (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1932 One of a pair of 45hp Dennis tankers, fleet no 144, chassis no 120025 was registered in February 1932, GW 2398, with a ULW of 9.9.2, the tank holding 1,630 gallons. The biggest ‘docking’ expenditure occurred at just 17 months, in September 1933, with a figure of £486 being recorded. The vehicle gave 11 year’s service, before sale to A Wadsworth of Sandy Lane, Leighton Buzzard, in November 1943, for £110 with spares, including axle and radiator. Carl Borger explains the history "Dennis Specialist Vehicles was an English commercial vehicle manufacturer from Guildford founded in 1895 as Dennis Brothers Ltd by brothers John Cawsey Dennis and Herbert Raymond Dennis of Huntshaw, Devon, who were also responsible for the Speed King and Speed Queen bicycles, and built buses, trucks, fire engines and municipal vehicles such as refuse carts and lawnmowers, custom-made to customer requirements. In 1919 Dennis Bros. purchased engine manufacturer White and Poppe Limited of Coventry, in 1962 Alfred Miles' fire apparatus division of the Hawker Siddeley Group, in 1964 industrial tractor manufacturer Mercury Truck & Tractor Company and its aircraft tug and baggage cart manufacturing division Mercury Airfield Equipment and ground handling unit Mercury Snow Control, later with Dennis Mercury being transferred to Marshalls Halifax. In 1972 Dennis Motor Holdings was acquired by Heston Aircraft Co, which had also acquired Yorkshire Vehicles and Eagle Engineering, and was renamed Hestair Dennis Limited. In 1983, it purchased Duple Coachbuilders, closing its fire engineering division with the requirements contracted by Simon Carmichael International Group Ltd SIG, also creating John Dennis Trainbuilders. In 1989, with the purchase of the Hestair Specialist Vehicles Ltd business by Trinity Holdings, it was renamed Dennis Group. In 1992, Reliance-Mercury was acquired, in 1995, the cargo handling division of ML Holdings: Douglas Equipment Limited and Schopf Maschinenbau GmbH and Trinity was acquired by Mayflower Corporation in 1998 with Dennis Eagle being spun off and sold to NatWest Equity Partners as well as FL Douglas and Schopf and with the formation of the TransBus International joint venture founded by Mayflower with the Henlys Group which became Plaxton Holdings Limited and insolvent in 2004 the company became Alexander Dennis Limited ADL which in 2019 was acquired by the Canadian bus manufacturer New Flyer, which then became the NFI Group." (Courtesy The Express Dairy Motorised Fleet, Allan Bedford, Heritage Machines)
1932 The second of the 1932 Dennis tankers, on chassis no 120026, fleet no 143, GW 9363, was converted into a box van in December 1937, at a cost of £310. It left the fleet a year earlier than its twin, passing to W Smyth of London, N4, for £160, in August, 1942. (Courtesy The Express Dairy Motorised Fleet, Allan Bedford, Heritage Machines)
1930's Cricklewood. Matthew Pinto comments "Yes, think it is Cricklewood. It looks like the loading area at the south end near the railway sidings." (Courtesy Craig Wells)
1933 'Direct Farm Supply Insulated Tank' AGX 855, Co:126 behind GNR churn truck. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1933 Rowsley-filling milk tankers for transportation to London. Bill Conquest comments "The road tanker was new to Express in 1933 so the dairy would have not long opened". (Courtesy Jim Wilson)
1934c Bradford Model Dairy 2000 gallon demountable tank and flat-wagon. LNER Wagon1734, in chocolate brown livery. Phil Baxter "Can anyone remember the milk train that ran along and above Bowling Back Lane to the Model Milk dairy-it became a scrap yard in the 70s?" (Courtesy Matthew Pinto, Milk on the Rails)
1934 AEC Mercury Express Dairy milk GP 133, Co: 129 tanker, possibly on its way to Bromley Processing. Robin Fraser Bell comments "I served that road a few times with my dad, later on the rider prams-used to drive on the service road /pavement you can see. Later on was served by Sidcup depot." (Courtesy Lloyd Rich)
1936 The updated ‘386’ series Mammoth Major was introduced to the market in 1936, and this oil-engined example, on chassis no 0386082, was registered JU 8515 in Leicester in April of that year. Again, Murphy Bros of Leicester were the agents who sold it to the dairy in August 1944, for £3,100. In May 1946, a new cab was fitted, complete with mudguards, at a total cost of £252. It was sold in October 1948 to the London Brick Co for £600, plus £23 16s 8d purchase tax. The tank was removed for refurbishment and fitting to a new Mammoth Major, fleet no 961. (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1937 Leyburn Creamery opemed in 1937-Article from 'The Milk Train in Wensleydale' by Karen Griffiths (Yorkshiredales.org.uk)
1940s? Leyburn Creamery tanker lineup. Rod McCall comments "My uncle lived in the house next to this, he was in charge of the goods yard at Leyburn." (Courtesy Bill and Marjory English)
1940s? AEC Tanker KXY 614 Co:1069. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1940s? AEC Tanker LLX 260 Co:1093. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1944 Seddon diesel trucks forming part of Dobsons Dairies fleet. (Courtesy Commercial Motor Archive)
1944 AEC Southall - amusing letter from the service manager H. Dymond. (Express News Autumn 1975)
1948 This wonderful piece of artwork is taken from a lavish catalogue produced by WP Butterfield Ltd, of Shipley and, although the Mammoth Major illustrated was delivered in September 1947, other vehicles depicted dated from six years later. Fleet no 928, JXN 492, on chassis no 0386846, was supplied at a cost of £2,346, the Duramin cab came to £211 and the 3,000-gallon tank, £1,210. Thanks to a very helpful clerk with his fountain pen, we know that the vehicle entered service on the 12/4/48, at the dairy in Leyburn in the Yorkshire Dales. This first opened in 1937, with the milk sent by direct rail link for bottling at Cricklewood. The chassis-cab was sold to Hamptons of Fenstanton in February 1957, for £1,200. (Courtesy The Express Dairy Motorised Fleet, Allan Bedford, Heritage Machines)
1948 A similar Mammoth Major tanker seen on Butterfield’s stand no 97, at the first, post-war Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court, in October 1948. (Courtesy The Express Dairy Motorised Fleet, Allan Bedford, Heritage Machines)
1949 AEC Tanker 1093, Reg: TB1950 probably at South Morden. Roger Frost comments "This was the one displayed on the Butterfield’s stand at the 1948 Commercial Motor show. This was the first show to be held in Earls Court after WW2. I remember being taken by my old dad who worked T.H Lewis to see it." (Courtesy Bill Conquest)
1949 Posed at Southall when new, with the railway bridge to the left, Mammoth Major, chassis no 3871H349, engine no A216-25, was purchased in December 1949 and allocated fleet no 1093, LLX 260. Again fitted with a Duramin cab and fittings costing £304, chassis £2,620 and the Thompson Bros of Bilston stainless steel 3,000-gallon tank at £1,270. This one was displayed at the 1950 Commercial Show, with the ‘Special Show’ paintwork adding another £700 to the initial cost! The chassis passed to Birds in May 1963 for £100, but the tank was transferred twice for a further lease of life to later chassis. (Courtesy The Express Dairy Motorised Fleet, Allan Bedford, Heritage Machines)
1950's? IMS Foden 8-wheel milk tanke MXV 215 (Courtesy Thelonious Monk0
1950's Butterfields tanker (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1950's Express tanker GXY 434 Co Reg: 702. Carl Borger comments "Maudslay Marathon-The Maudslay Motor Company was a manufacturer of automobiles, locomotives, commercial vehicles and buses founded in 1902 in Coventry from the engineering firm Maudslay & Field, founded in 1833, which became known for its line of trucks named with the letter M starting by Merlin, Mogul, Militant, Mustang, Mahrajah, Maharanee, Mikado, Meritor, Marathon, Majestic, Mammoth Major and Minor, Mute, Mandator, Matador, Marshal, Mercury and Monarch. In 1948 it was acquired by AEC - Associated Equipment Company also known as ACLO, which together with Crossley Motors, formed a new group that was renamed Associated Commercial Vehicles-ACV, years later also acquiring Thornycroft. The production of vehicles using the Maudslay brand continued until 1954 when it was discontinued and Leyland Motors acquired ACV in 1962." (Courtesy Craig Wells)
1950's Express Tanker JXT 203 Co Reg: 567 (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1950's Express Tanker Reg TB1950, Fleet No 1093, new tanker on trade places. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1950's Seaton Junction Churn Collection (Courtesy Keith Sweetland)
1950's Express tanker, Co No: 2525 (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1950's? AEC-Butterfield tankers advertisement (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1950's Monarch Tanker at Stockport Road, Levenshulme
1950's AEC Reg: 101 BXA, Fleet: 2457 (Courtesy Phillip Budd)
1950's Bollo Lane (Courtesy Craig Wells)
1950's Bladen Dairies tanker KGW 157, new in 1949. "Foden produced a very pleasing cab in the early post-second war period as seen in this view of a smart "FG" hauling a tandem axle milk tank. The running gear for the trailer was produced by Dysons and the single tyres on the tank look most impressive" (Courtesy Don Reid, Flickr, CAL Wright Collection)
1950s?
1950's Milborne St Andrew, Manager Mr McTurk by IMS Foden tanker JXE 969. (Courtesy Pete Jackson)
1950's Express Tanker Reg: JXN 569, Fleet No 969. Bill Conquest identifies this image taken at Rowsley, heading on the A6 toward Matlock. (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1950 Seen in Grosvenor Road, London, in 1950, and photographed by Arthur Hustwitt, this Atkinson Model L1586, chassis no FC1084 was a one-off wartime allocation in 1945, supplied through Godfrey Davis of Neasdon, NW10, but not registered GXY 436 until March 1946. It was sold for £700 in 1952, but the tank was transferred to a new AEC Mammoth Major, fleet no 1333, seen in a later image. (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1950 Seen in Grosvenor Road, London, in 1950, and photographed by Arthur Hustwitt, this Atkinson Model L1586, chassis no FC1084 was a one-off wartime allocation in 1945, supplied through Godfrey Davis of Neasdon, NW10, but not registered GXY 436 until March 1946. It was sold for £700 in 1952, but the tank was transferred to a new AEC Mammoth Major, fleet no 1333, seen in a later image. (NA3T) (Courtesy The Express Dairy Motorised Fleet, Allan Bedford, Heritage Machines)
1952 'Milk on Wheels' article (first page only) by E.H.B. Palmer, published in The Dairyman magazine. (Courtesy Paul Luke0
1952 The milk must get through! This Mammoth Major, chassis no 3871H1021, engine no A216 J1295, was new in January 1952. The tank, however, was formerly carried on a wartime Atkinson, fleet no 704, GXY 436. Again fitted with a Duramin cab, the specification included five-speed gearbox, 6.4:1 axle ratio and air brakes. The chassis later passed to Hamptons of Fenstanton, but the tank went on for a third life. (Courtesy The Express Dairy Motorised Fleet, Allan Bedford, Heritage Machines)
1952 'The Express Dairy' Booklet, colour rendering by Leo Saunders (September 2025)
1955 Two generations of Mammoth Major Mk III stand in line. The new ‘tin front’ on RLW602, with distinctive Strachan cab, chassis no 3871H1856, engine no A216JX2783, fleet no 1762, was new in January 1955. The tank was another Butterfield product. The chassis passed to T&F Motors in December 1964, for £150. Behind stands chassis no 0386845, engine no 299, fleet no 929, JXN 505, new in September 1947. It entered service with the tanker pool on 1/2/48 and passed to Birds in 1957, for £1,000. (Courtesy The Express Dairy Motorised Fleet, Allan Bedford, Heritage Machines)
1956 3000 gallon AEC articulated tanker: from album showing 30 years of progress in transport fleet. (Express News July)
1956 Tunbridge Wells, Nevill Street (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1956 Tunbridge Wells, Nevill Street (Courtesy Brian Walter, Pinterest)
1957 South Morden-Duke of Edinburgh's visit on November 12-driver Charles Denney being presented to the Duke. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
2025 Comments by Roger Frost and Pauline Theobald about Charles Denney's achievements. (Express Dairy Tales publication)
1960's tanker artwork. Roger Frost comments "I’m sure that was on the Thompson‘s stand at the 1950 Commercial Motor Show, held in Earls Court." (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960's ? GS Cooper's Express Dairy tanker.
1960's? Seaton Junction casualty (Courtesy Keith Sweetland)
1960's Express Tanker PKG 176, Fleet No 1655 (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960's Express Tanker Reg PXV 964 pictured at Chard Junction, location identified by John Woodley. (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1960's Bulk collection Bedford 'S' Type Tanker MLF 202, High Street, Oxford (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960's Bulk collection Bedford Tanker MLF 202 and others
1960's Tanker, 1967 Reg C.W. Sayer tractor, at Appleby. Chris Ewart comments "Could be Express Dairy Appleby-looks like it when I used to load milk tankers with Ernie Hind?" David Atkinson adds "Think that looks like Jack Turnbull on top of the tank so therefore it will be Appleby!". Fiona Egglestone confirms. The caption on the article reads "This vehicle is a typical example of the general bulk liquid carrier's need for the biggest possible payload. It carries 5,000gal of milk in three compartments (two of 2,250gal and one of 500gal) and is constructed from EN58B quality stainless steel. The running gear is a Northern Trailer Co. Ltd. three-axle type incorporating a Ceschi rearmost steering axle." (Courtesy Thelonious Monk)
1960s? AEC Tanker SLP 894 Co:1821. Tom Weston comments "Brings back happy memories of time I spent with my father travelling in these tankers, loved the experience." (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960's Bulk collection KXY 614, Fleet No 1069 (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960's Cricklewood. Bulk Tanker (Courtesy Craig Wells)
1960's Bulk collection JXT 203
1960's Bulk Tanker RLM 318, Fleet No 1787 (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960's Express Tanker TLD 378 Co Reg: 1895. (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1960's Bulk collection VGF 857
1960's Bulk Tanker unloading. Matthew Pinto comments "You can just make out a rail tank in the siding behind." (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1960's Bulk Tanker
1960's Tanker RLW 601
1960's Express AEC Tanker Fleet No 1455. Bill Conquest points out that "No Royal warrant on cab door". (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1960's Tanker RLM 318, Co: 1787 (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960's Tanker 122 BXA
1960's Express Tanker 122 BYA, Fleet No 2505 (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1960's Express Tankers 122 BYA, Fleet No 2505 and 945 GYM, Fleet No 3101 (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1960s Unusual Bulk and churn collection lorry by T.H. Goodwin & Sons in Whitchurch, Shropshire. (Courtesy Thelonious Monk)
1960's Express Tanker 945 GYM, Fleet No 3101 (Courtesy Phillip Budd)
1960's Express AEC Tanker Reg: TLD378, Fleet No 1895 (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1960's Golden Seal Bedford Tanker YYN 817
1960's Bedford Express Tanker 202 ALE Co C2436 (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1960's Golden Seal Bedford Tanker YYN 817
1960's Golden Seal Bedford Tanker YYN 817, Fleet No 2369
1960's Bulk Tanker MXY 763
1960's Express Dairy Tanker Reg 958 CYF, Co Num: 2647. (Courtesy Thelonious Monk)
1960's Express Tanker Reg: 516 FLM, Fleet No 2936 (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1960's Express Tanker (Courtesy Phillip Budd)
1960s? Two tankers parked up with other Express vehicles. AEC Tanker SLD 621, Co: 1790 alongside Bedford 202 ALE, Co: 2435. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960s? AEC Tanker 727 HLT, Co:3128. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960s Express Tanker (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1960's, tanker on forecourt at South Morden Processing Vehicles (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1960's Express Tanker Reg: 945 GYM, Fleet No 3101 (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960's Express Tanker Reg: 952 GYM, Fleet No 3104 (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1960's? AEC Express Dairy Tanker outside The Swan, Denham (From Graham Newell, Flickr)
1960's South Ruislip yard with vehicle maintenance workshops behind. Raffaele Ralph Phillips comments "Pretty sure that's the maintenance garage in the background where l worked for some extra training after my apprenticeship at South Morden, Syd Hobbs and Billy Whittle were in charge of the workshop back then in the late 70's." Pete Brewster comments "Remember it well. Truck wash around the back." Paul Batchelor adds "Hi Paul I’m sure I remember you at South Ruislip in the offices on the lower site. I used to go there mainly on Fridays to meet up with Terry Mason and the girls in the office were Sam, Debbie and Sheila at that time." (Courtesy Sandra Lee's Shoppe, eBay)
1960s MMB Tanker 870 VPD tipping at South Morden. (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1960's AEC Tanker (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1960's Milk tankers delivering to Appleby, courtesy of Iain Dargue
1960's Milk tankers delivering to Appleby, courtesy of Iain Dargue
1960's Milk tankers delivering to Appleby, courtesy of Iain Dargue. Keith Johnson comments "I was an MMB Field Officer for Cumberland & Westmorland from 1968 to 1974, based in Appleby, and was heavily involved in the conversion from churns to bulk collection. The creamery manager was Frank Betts, and Bob Smith was transport manager, with Wilson Forrester as transport foreman."
1960's Appleby farm collection vehicles Keith Johnson comments "I was an MMB Field Officer in the late 60s/early 70s based in Appleby when the bulk scheme started. I took the one of the AEC on the first day of bulk collection." (Courtesy Keith Johnson)
1960's AEC Tanker KLO 391D (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1960s AEC Mammoth Major 8-Wheel Tanker Reg: SLD 621 Co: 1790. (Courtesy Mahooknits4u, eBay)
1960s AEC Tanker 103 FXF, Co: 2937 Philip Boyd comments "At Ruislip by the fuel pump." (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1960's Appleby farm collection vehicles (Courtesy Keith Johnson)
1960's Appleby farm collection vehicles David Atkinson comments "That was Len Pott's tanker, looks to be taken on the sands in Appleby!" (Courtesy Keith Johnson)
1960 New AEC 3,300 gallon milk tanker
1960 Express Tanker 197 ALE, Fleet: 2279 (Courtesy Bill Conquest)
1960 Express Tanker 197 ALE, Fleet: 2279 Philip Boyd comments "Looks like tanker leaving workshop at Ruislip." Terry R Mason adds "Used to work on these back in the '60's, good workhorses." (Courtesy Express Dairy Memories)
1961 Mr John Gilmour, Milk Checker unloads a bulk milk tanker at MillRoad Street. The dairy was the first to move to all bulk collection. (Express News Autumn)
1961 First Express ex-Farm 1750 gallon bulk milk tankers based at Rickmansworth, featuring Bob Brownsell from South Ruislip, who just completed 20 years with Express. Bob was trained for two weeks at South Morden laboratory, where MMB drivers are also trained. Roy Toms comments "Bob Brownsell was my father-in-law, I also drove them out of Mill End and South Ruislip from 1974". Stephen Danzig recognises Middleton Road, Mill End, Rickmansworth.(Express News Summer)
1961 First Express ex-Farm 1750 gallon bulk milk tankers based at Rickmansworth, featuring Bob Brownsell from South Ruislip, who just completed 20 years with Express. Bob was trained for two weeks at South Morden laboratory, where MMB drivers are also trained. Roy Toms comments "Bob Brownsell was my father-in-law, I also drove them out of Mill End and South Ruislip from 1974". Stephen Danzig recognises Middleton Road, Mill End, Rickmansworth.(Express News Summer)
1961 First Express ex-Farm 1750 gallon bulk milk tankers based at Rickmansworth, featuring Bob Brownsell from South Ruislip, who just completed 20 years with Express. Bob was trained for two weeks at South Morden laboratory, where MMB drivers are also trained. (Express News Summer)
1961 First Express ex-Farm 1750 gallon bulk milk tankers based at Rickmansworth, featuring Bob Brownsell from South Ruislip, who just completed 20 years with Express. Roy Toms identifies Micklefield Farm, Sarratt. Bob was trained for two weeks at South Morden laboratory, where MMB drivers are also trained. (Express News Summer)
1961 First Express ex-Farm 1750 gallon bulk milk tankers based at Rickmansworth, featuring Bob Brownsell from South Ruislip, who just completed 20 years with Express. Bob was trained for two weeks at South Morden laboratory, where MMB drivers are also trained. (Express News Summer)
1961 First Express ex-Farm 1750 gallon bulk milk tankers-Bob Brownsell dismounts from the tanker 101 BXA, Co: 2457. Jacquie Brownsell comments "I’m from Swindon and married to David Brownsell, who is one of Bob’s sons and originally from Rickmansworth. Another family member told us about this article." (Express News Summer)
1961 First Express ex-Farm 1750 gallon bulk milk tankers-Bob Brownsell waits to unload at South Ruislip Processing with 101 BXA, Co: 2457. (Express News Summer)
1961 First Express ex-Farm 1750 gallon bulk milk tankers-Bob Brownsell demonstrates the procedure on the farm. Roger Frost comments "Those farm collection vehicles had massive batteries on them to power the onboard electric pump." (Express News Summer)
1961 Long Service Dinner at The Connaught Rooms, WC2-Tanker Drivers Mr F.W. Paice, Mr H. Treadwell, Mr Don Coyle, Mr E.O. Vousden and Mr C.F. Lewis. (LSA Annual Review)
1964 Express Tanker Reg: 129 BXA Fleet 2459
1964 South Morden tanker driver George Garrett receives the BEM. From August 'Express Extra' newsletter (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1965 Santa at the Bull Hotel, Gerrards Cross
1965c Leonard Conquest, Rowsley based driver, standing by his tanker 197 ALE, Co: 2279. Bill Conquest comments "Photo of my father working nights, I should imagine in the summer months because of the uniform. Taken by an unknown professional photographer at a café near Market Harborough, probably on the Rowsley TO London run." Graham Burns adds "My dad Ronald Burns worked at Rowsley on the churn lorries, but occasionally drove a tanker to Market Harborough in the 60s." (Courtesy Bill Conquest)
1965, purchased 1960. Jeremy Perkins from AEC Lorries FB group posted this.
1965 Primrose & Len's head office in Lower Stone Street occupies what was once the garden of the early Georgian house on the left. Milk, delivered by bulk farm collection tankers, is bottled on site and distributed among 50 retail rounds. Dee Hatcher comments "My dad worked for Charles Arkol, that started off with a small yard there.", David Naghi comments "I helped the milkman before I went to school.". John Hakeman remembers "... school milk in 1/3 pint bottles, hot and creamy but rank in the summer sun, ice lollies in winter! On the corner of Romney Place and Stone street-the milk bar, and milk machines all over Maidstone". Betty Davies asks "Who remembers the ice cream parlour on the corner?", Kathleen Stone replies "Yes, The Milk Bar. Delicious ice cream, served from the side window." (Express News Summer/Autumn)
1966 Tanker DLF 446C, Co. No. 3208 (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1966 Reg. AEC Tanker KLB 247D, Co: 3441. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1966 Reg. AEC Tanker KGC 289D, Co: 3414. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1966 Reg. AEC Tanker KLB 246D on the road.. Martin Francis comments "These look like AEC Mammoth Majors with super single tyres on the drive axles." (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1966 Tanker DLF 449C, Co. No. 3212, at AEC works. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1966 Reg AEC Articulated Tanker (Express News Autumn 1975)
1966 Reg Express AEC Tanker KLO 400D Express Tanker 122 BYA, Fleet No 2505 (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1966 Express night-time operations - Driver Bill Thomas receives instructions from Night Tanker Foreman Harry Shepherd, at South Ruislip, before collecting 3000 gallons of milk from Staplemead for delivery to Bromley Processing. (Express News Summer 1966)
1967 10-wheel articulated tanker with AEC Mammoth Major tractor, ferrying milk from country creameries to London bottling centres, holding 4500 gallons
1967 Reg. Hammetts AEC Tankers. "MMB Crediton collected Hammett's Dairy milk in the 1970's. Brian May added "Hammetts Dairy was in Pinhoe, where Lidl are now." Philip Broom adds "John Hodgers was the first bulk driver for Hammett's-I think it was 1967." (Courtesy Brian May, Devon Hauliers FB Group)
1967 Reg. Hammetts AEC Tanker at Exhibition Way, Exeter. (Courtesy Philip Broom, Devon Hauliers FB Group)
1968 Reg AEC Mercury ex-farm tanker WLR 970G (Courtesy Jeremy Perkins)
1969 Reg Eden Vale AEC Tanker DAN 242H (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1969, 2nd April-First farm tanker discharging, YGH 654G, Co: 3924. (From 'A Photographic Record of the Construction of the Creamery' by Bill Wilson (Courtesy Allhallows Museum, Honiton)
1969 Honiton-yard at end of covered way adjoining vehicle repair workshop. (From 'A Photographic Record of the Construction of the Creamery' by Bill Wilson (Courtesy Allhallows Museum, Honiton)
