The Milkfloat

A milk float is a vehicle specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk. Today, milk floats are usually battery electric vehicles (BEV), but they were formerly horse-drawn. They were once common in many European countries, particularly the United Kingdom, and were operated by local dairies. However, in recent years, as the number of supermarkets, small independent grocers and petrol stations, and convenience stores stocking fresh milk has increased, many people have switched from regular home delivery to obtaining fresh milk from these other sources.

[@NW-lv9gb]

I wanted to show my husband (who's not British and has never seen a milk float) what one looks like and the first video was of the milkman delivering milk in Thornbury, where I come from. This was so nostalgic!

[@GreatWestern175]

I remember as a young kid in the 90's hearing the distinct sound of the milk float stopping and passing by the neighborhood I lived in the early hours of the morning. Nostalgic times

[@justinmorgan2126]

Same here but from the 70s.... 🙂

[@Unedited2022]

Same! I was born 87 and remember hearing it in the early 90s

[@mikesmith5083]

Thanks for posting this. It brought very happy memories flooding back. I used to help deliver milk when I was kid in the 1970s. If no one was about I used to drive the milk float, an old W&E three wheeler, from Burscough to Skem whilst the milkman drank his tea, read a newspaper, rolled cigarettes and ate marmalade sandwiches! Happy days. God bless.

[@jackwatsonepic626]

God this brings back memories of when I was 15 and delivered the milk on weekends

[@fetchstixRHD]

Watching this video, especially with some of the comments made in it, sounds like we're coming full circle with electric delivery vehicles coming back! If I had the time, knowledge and money, I would love to take a milk float and modify it with modern parts/features (lighter/improved batteries, brushless/AC motors and regenerative braking [assuming it isn't already there] would improve their performance), maybe one day! I wouldn't really have a use for it though so there's that 🤔

[@justinreeve7437]

Mrs Teague likes it on her front door rather than her back door 🤣😂🤣😂

[@johnblack3498]

Back door action for me.😊

[@dannym1882]

That sounds like something you would hear from Pat Mustard

[@tutsecret499]

I miss the bottle milk delivering, the bird stealing the milk. Nowadays you have to to those organic Mama grocery store and you find milk bottle. They get spoiled very quick, and tastes so good this organic milk. I have to boil the milk, I have to remove the excess of the fat before I drink, it's too strong for me. But I would use the fat to make heavy cream for chantilling.

[@peterscotney1]

What a wonderful video ... takes me back to when i was a milklad with express dairies in the early 80s, i remember when we was at war with our closest rivals the co_op dairies on the wirral...lol

[@davidfriggens209]

I was a milky for 43 years .Alas thieving and supermarket s and I had to give up.

[@electronash]

16:44 Great to see Paul Whitehouse doing his Geordie impression here. ;)

[@maurice720]

Me and my wife had a milkman around 1998 . Milk orange juice eggs bread potatoes biscuits milk shakes 😂 . Miss them days tho

[@franhiatt1]

I never knew there were so many electric delivery vans around as well as milk floats. Just imagine if they had continued to be developed from early on, they'd have EV cars and commercials almost perfect by now.

[@anicetune]

This idea should have been expanded on, with the delivery of butter, bread, meat, fish and frozen food.

[@fetchstixRHD]

Didn't they end up doing that? Milk and More drop off supplies, though arguably they got into it pretty late to compete. Nowadays, you have the likes of Getir delivering small supplies on electric motorbikes, and even bigger shops who have been doing deliveries for some time are getting electric vehicles. They should all pay homage to the original milk float!

[@phoenixkali]

My dad lived in the countryside and he remembers a grocery van delivering fruit and veg, bread and tins. It stopped at the end of the street once a week for a cpl of hours . That was electric too. Kids today think they're so green, it was another world in our day

[@andrewrcmadwilkinson6999]

MRS TEAGUE LIKES IT ON HER FRONT DOOR RATHER THAN HER BACK DOOR SOUNDS LIKE A SKETCH FOM THE BENNY HILL SHOW

[@dronespace]

Lol

[@augustuscaesar4976]

I'm told they often did.... funny.

[@grahamd5418]

Better than having it up her back passage!

[@davidyoung9561]

Many women like it in their back door.

[@krismargett]

Straight off the bat. The jokes write themselves

[@willw6126]

Sad I missed them 😢

[@Alloneword-cp2xw]

I remember getting a lift home on a milk float and a free pint of milk after a night out.

[@stephenjfilmsnetwork6876]

Elisabeth Milk floats love so much bring back memories in 80s on my Coop Milk round, I say this The Milkman will never disappear. 🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛 Milk 😋😋😋😋😋 try some 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@lumpyfishgravy]

Reminds me of my paper round. Up at 5:30 and £2.10 a week!

[@kingsamuelofficial]

Oh My you borough back a memory

[@knoblybits]

that Mrs Teig never was very adventurous..

[@bernardcharlesworth9860]

Miss them

[@stevedavis68]

I remember working out of W&E Standards, Rangemsters, Spacemasrers and twin rear wheeled Majors

[@johnblack3498]

We need more back door action.

[@steviemurdoch3213]

I remember taking one of these as a kid was fin and games at time until I got cot grounded for a month only moved it 50_70 mtrs neighbour grassed sad times

[@marclaw4511]

Had unigate deliver in the 70s as a kid.

[@tutsecret499]

The small business should be protected. The giant business should sell other stuffs instead of stealing the small business.

[@user-do7ug5iw9r]

Best days of your life 👍

[@HughSykesFilm]

Great doc, odd choice of music, but fabulous film editing - a masterclass.

[@stevenmyers6439]

Why have I just watched that?!

[@crusinclassicslucas6218]

An old electric car motor sounds like an air raid siren when it accelerates or slows down

[@jayvis4747]

Tesla just copied the EV from milkman😀

[@rbeygarcia]

16:23 what a beautiful, handsome face this man has.

[@Greavesy]

Milk and more knocking at the door

[@JoseMartins-nr3jv]

United Kingdom Northern ireland Belfast Milk Truck 1960 🇬🇧 Playmobil

[@millsyinnz]

This is the future of EV's.

[@crusinclassicslucas6218]

I believe that an electric milk float is not completely quiet because of the sound the electric motor makes when it accelerates or slows down

[@augustuscaesar4976]

I worked for W&E in the 1980s as a rep. for the South-West, living in West Somerset and going to W%E each Friday to discuss sales and plan the following week's work. etc. From 1970-74- I was an electric vehicle fitter for HD. and served my apprenticeship on W&E vehicles.

[@hughchapman5319]

Nice. I'm looking to buy a reconditioned float for the gardening and landscaping business I run in Wood Green

[@chriswill9473]

Great vid

[@erikmutthersbough6508]

Does anyone know the name of the movie about the milkman that they used scenes from in this documentary?

[@alexandermathar7780]

There a some cheap electric vans from Tata and Mahindra that can do the job.

[@millsyinnz]

We need less Tesla's and more Wales and Edwards milk floats!

[@chuckmaddison2924]

Ahead of its time .

[@franktuckwell196]

But then we had the Milk Marketing Board. What have we got now?

[@missdonutaltaccount1380]

Was This In The Early 2000s Or 1990s?

[@alexandermathar7780]

Restomod with a Tesla Plaid drivetrain ! HAHAHAHA!!!

[@shedendpussys]

Me or 1930s looked fucking prime? What happened lol

[@justsaying9483]

This must be what started tesla

[@waynekerrr9027]

Wow.. we've come such a long way with technology..weve now got battery cars, which are also sh1te 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@808music3]

Times are more differently now with young adults and teens with high testosterone pilling up in their blood. Those days will come back as more and more generation will see it’s a good idea. Hard work always pays rather sitting in front that pc.