Talk about a blast from the past...

[Soph0571]

Can you remember the last time you saw one of these? Decades for me. I thought they had gone the way of the dodo but this was parked on my terrace today!! How cool is that... no milk though.

[snowybirdie]

1. For those of us

across the pond, what is this?

[Soph0571]

2. It is a milk float

We used to have bottles of milk delivered by the milkman and left on our doorsteps way back when, so when you got up in the morning you would go outside and get your fresh milf

[mwooldri]

3. Hmmm... Might wanna edit that post...

There probably were plenty of milkmen who saw mothers that they'd like to ... shall we say... give them more than just two pints of silver top...

The last "milk float" I saw was diesel powered, and was delivering still to my aunt and grandmother. And while the milkmen primarily delivered milk, they would deliver other things too like bread, orange juice and soda.

[Soph0571]

5. I haven't seen one since the early 90's when I moved to London.

I think they are a very rare beast indeed - apparently though - having just googled about 3% of milk is still delivered by a milkman

[mwooldri]

7. My family still lives in the Surrey Hills.

So yeah they switched to diesel vans a long while back since fewer and fewer people were using the milkman, depots were closed down and the electric milkfloats just didn't have the range or speed. In the 80s the milkfloat (electric) was a familiar sight to me... By the 90s our family got the milk from the supermarket instead. My dad's family though continued with the milkman, and still do.

[T_i_B]

8. This thread makes me think of this sketch for some reason....

[TreasonousBastard]

4. My fresh milf is already inside.

(Sorry-- couldn't help myself)

[Soph0571]

6. *Groan*

LOL

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. There was a Liverpool dairy still using electric milk floats in 2018, and another had 1 made in 2004

Mortons Dairies has delivered milk in glass bottles in Liverpool for nearly 100 years.

It has more than 140,000 glass bottles in circulation and delivers more than 27,000 pints of milk from seven depots across the city on a fleet of around 100 electric milk floats daily.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/resurgence-milkman-everyone-liverpool-now-14740797

This is the Gem (Global Electric Motorcars) incorporated in DamilerChrysler Mk1 Milkfloat presently being used by Harrisons Dairies, Belmont Road Liverpool. It delivers daily to 432 houses, travelling around 25 to 30 miles per day and returns still half charged.

http://www.milkfloats.org.uk/modern.html

[LeftishBrit]

10. Certainly remember them well from my childhood

Don't remember when I last saw one, though.