SR Milk Tankers

[Karhedron]

On 30/01/2024 at 16:31, Wickham Green too said:

The use of a MICA for churns of liquid milk would have been worse than a four-wheeled MILTA and would have resulted in butter + buttermilk ................. could it have been delivering solid milk products - from elsewhere - for local distribution ?

 

It is possible but Lostwithiel was not involved in local distribution until 1960 when a bottling line was installed. When first opened, Lostwithiel's job was simply to collect milk from the surrounding areas and cool it for dispatch to London.

 

Even more puzzling is that one of the MICAs appears to be parked by the boiler room, you can even see the mound of coal behind it suggesting this is where coal wagons were normally unloaded. That seems to be to be a very odd place to load or unload food products.

 

[Wickham Green too]

The guy in the white shirt seems to be scratching his head .......... equally mystified !!?!

[Michael Hodgson]

3 hours ago, Karhedron said:

Even more puzzling is that one of the MICAs appears to be parked by the boiler room, you can even see the mound of coal behind it suggesting this is where coal wagons were normally unloaded. That seems to be to be a very odd place to load or unload food products.

 

It doesn;t appear to be in process of being loaded/unloaded. 

Perhaps it was just shunted there out of the way waiting until it is needed.

[Nearholmer]

Barrels of clotted cream for the Lyon’s Tea Shops, I reckon, to cater for the annual Scone Rush. Or great vats of pouring cream for Wimbledon strawberries.

 

I’m entirely making this up, but don’t cows produce very high cream milk at certain times of year, leading effectively to surpluses? August and September??