Vintage Milkfloat, Z Milkfloat and Freebie. (commercial)

ForbiddenWhispers

Hi Everyone,

David and I present the Milkfloat collection! 

If you buy the Milkfloat and the Zombie Milkfloat Add-on, you'll get the Iddy Biddy Milkfloat free! 

David and I hope you enjoy the sets.

https://www.daz3d.com/vintage-milk-float
https://www.daz3d.com/vintage-milk-float-z
https://www.daz3d.com/iddy-biddy-milk-float

Go on, check em' out! 

Anna & David

 

Richard Haseltine

In my cart, but I do have to point out tht the bottles look to be the modern form rather than the taller version we used to have (unless there's a morph I missed).

Nath

Love the whole set, but I think you missed an opportunity for a character tie-in....

David Brinnen

Richard Haseltine said:

In my cart, but I do have to point out tht the bottles look to be the modern form rather than the taller version we used to have (unless there's a morph I missed).

Oh, now that is a good question, I remember the older design... just - I can't remember when it was phased out though.  It was long before milk rounds became a thing of the past.  But I don't know if the milk floats spent more of their time delievering the old bottles or the newer ones?  You've got me wondering now!

 

Gordig

Is this just a UK thing? I’d never heard the term “milk float” before, nor have I seen milk delivered in a vehicle that looks like that. 

David Brinnen

Gordig said:

Is this just a UK thing? I’d never heard the term “milk float” before, nor have I seen milk delivered in a vehicle that looks like that. 

Aye, it might be... and Ireland too, don't forget!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOX_hbkAMc

Richard Haseltine

Gordig said:

Is this just a UK thing? I’d never heard the term “milk float” before, nor have I seen milk delivered in a vehicle that looks like that. 

Possibly, they were slow-moving electrical vehicles used for delivering milk (at least in towns, I think ours has used a pertol-driven van with a similar structure for a while but I can't recall if it was electric way back when - I have a vague memory of an electric unit trundling along the other side of the road once).

I can't recall when th4e standard size chnaged - late 70s or more likely in the 80s, I think.

Chohole

I can remember when our milk was deliverd like this.  

but yes Electric milk floats actually started in the 40s or 50s,  but our town was old fashioend and like the milk carts.
and the milk bottle design changed in late 70s into the 80s as Richard suspected.

Apparently milk keeps better in opaque containers,  so hence the white plastic bottles or tetra packs.

David Brinnen

Richard Haseltine said:

Gordig said:

Is this just a UK thing? I’d never heard the term “milk float” before, nor have I seen milk delivered in a vehicle that looks like that. 

Possibly, they were slow-moving electrical vehicles used for delivering milk (at least in towns, I think ours has used a pertol-driven van with a similar structure for a while but I can't recall if it was electric way back when - I have a vague memory of an electric unit trundling along the other side of the road once).

I can't recall when th4e standard size chnaged - late 70s or more likely in the 80s, I think.

Yeah, that was my feeling.  I remember my Grandad being pleased with the design change as it meant the bottles fitted into the fridge better and were less prone to being knocked over.  I just about remember being "shocked" that something I'd known all my life, all few years of it, had changed.  So I'd speculate 1978-79.  My cousins ran a milk delivery service and that was going till until at least 1996... so that's nearly two decades of delivery of the new design bottles.  But... not being alive, I'd have to rely on the internet to tell me how long the old bottles were in circulation.  But it is a fair point.

 

David Brinnen

Chohole said:

I can remember when our milk was deliverd like this.  

but yes Electric milk floats actually started in the 40s or 50s,  but our town was old fashioend and like the milk carts.
and the milk bottle design changed in late 70s into the 80s as Richard suspected.

Apparently milk keeps better in opaque containers,  so hence the white plastic bottles or tetra packs.

Well... you learn something new every day, I didn't expect the electric delivery to start so early.  I don't remember any horse draw milk delivery.  Maybe that will come back now the way things are going.  Simpler times.  Thought you'll have to give me a bit of time to figure out how to model a horse!  Though all things considered, if milk ends up having to be delivered by horse drawn wagon - what use will the world have for digital artists?

 

 

AllenArt

Must be a UK thing ;). When I was a kid we had milk delivered and they came in a van with a sliding door, like most delivery vans.

Laurie

Fishtales

Chohole said:

I can remember when our milk was deliverd like this.  

but yes Electric milk floats actually started in the 40s or 50s,  but our town was old fashioend and like the milk carts.
and the milk bottle design changed in late 70s into the 80s as Richard suspected.

Apparently milk keeps better in opaque containers,  so hence the white plastic bottles or tetra packs.

That's how ours was delivered in the '50s then it was a flatbed lorry and then a van with a sliding side door. We never had electric milk floats and any images I have seen of them have been four wheeled.

nonesuch00

We ain't have milkmen delivering since I was a toddler and nothing like those contraptions. That looks like a golf cart on steriods! Ours (downtown Chicago) was like's Laurie's probably, a white ice cream style truck. In glass quart bottles. In souther Indiana, we'd go to the dairy farm ourself and they'd pull it out of a big vat of swirling milk for us, it taste a bit like grass though not like the Chicago milk. It was swirling because it still had the cream in it and you'd get nothing but cream for a while if wasn't constantly being mixed as they pulled it.

Chohole

Fishtales said:

Chohole said:

I can remember when our milk was deliverd like this.  

but yes Electric milk floats actually started in the 40s or 50s,  but our town was old fashioend and like the milk carts.
and the milk bottle design changed in late 70s into the 80s as Richard suspected.

Apparently milk keeps better in opaque containers,  so hence the white plastic bottles or tetra packs.

That's how ours was delivered in the '50s then it was a flatbed lorry and then a van with a sliding side door. We never had electric milk floats and any images I have seen of them have been four wheeled.

The Co-op had horses and Unigate had 3 wheeled electric milk floats in our town.  You had to be careful of the milkman's horse,  if you walked past him too close and didn't give him a pat or a sugar lump he would grab your coat or jumper and drag you back.

Richard Haseltine

There was a Unigate depot with pots of the three wheeled floats just up the road from my paternal grandmother's house - I remember she'd often stop in as we passed by to get an extra bottle.

Fishtales

@Chohole

It was the Co here too.The fruit an vegetable  man and the rag and bone man had horse and carts too, the rag and bone man also had a bugle to let people know he was in the area 

nonesuch00

Chohole said:

Fishtales said:

Chohole said:

I can remember when our milk was deliverd like this.  

but yes Electric milk floats actually started in the 40s or 50s,  but our town was old fashioend and like the milk carts.
and the milk bottle design changed in late 70s into the 80s as Richard suspected.

Apparently milk keeps better in opaque containers,  so hence the white plastic bottles or tetra packs.

That's how ours was delivered in the '50s then it was a flatbed lorry and then a van with a sliding side door. We never had electric milk floats and any images I have seen of them have been four wheeled.

The Co-op had horses and Unigate had 3 wheeled electric milk floats in our town.  You had to be careful of the milkman's horse,  if you walked past him too close and didn't give him a pat or a sugar lump he would grab your coat or jumper and drag you back.

Ha, horses would go into my mom'sd car trunk any time she had apples in it. Ruined her trunk lid. 

DoctorJellybean

These milk floats are the ones we had in South Africa back in the 70's.

David Brinnen

Turns out there's more to milk floats than I anticipated.  Never really crossed my mind there would be quite so much variation, when in other respects, transportation is fairly homogeneous across the modern world.

nicstt

Chohole said:

Fishtales said:

Chohole said:

I can remember when our milk was deliverd like this.  

but yes Electric milk floats actually started in the 40s or 50s,  but our town was old fashioend and like the milk carts.
and the milk bottle design changed in late 70s into the 80s as Richard suspected.

Apparently milk keeps better in opaque containers,  so hence the white plastic bottles or tetra packs.

That's how ours was delivered in the '50s then it was a flatbed lorry and then a van with a sliding side door. We never had electric milk floats and any images I have seen of them have been four wheeled.

The Co-op had horses and Unigate had 3 wheeled electric milk floats in our town.  You had to be careful of the milkman's horse,  if you walked past him too close and didn't give him a pat or a sugar lump he would grab your coat or jumper and drag you back.

I hear the milkfloat, some mornings; it's electric, so pretty quiet - still has that distinctive sound; the window has to be open, which it is often.