365-303 'Kev The Milk' On His Float, Northwich Cheshire, UK

Here is Kev, fastest milkman in the (Cheshire) West (and Chester).

Rarer than the proverbial rocking horse exhaust, the British milkman is becoming an endangered species. I fear the WWF (that’s the wildlife lot, not Hulk Hogans lot obviously!) will be listing Kev and his colleagues quite soon!

Originally, milk needed to be delivered to houses daily since poor refrigeration meant it would quickly spoil. The spread of the humble fridge and the aggressive discounting of supermarkets now mean that we tend to buy milk with the weekly shop and often in long lasting UHT form. Milk delivery also incurs a small cost on the price of dairy products that is increasingly difficult to justify. It also leaves delivered milk in a position where it is often prone to theft.

Kev here is in his electric milk float. Because of the relatively small power output from its electric motor, a milk float travels fairly slowly, usually around 10 to 16 miles per hour, although legend has it that some have been chipped to do up to 80 mph Operators. They are very quiet, suiting operations in residential areas during the early hours of the morning or during the night when diary products can be stealthily delivered.

In August 1967 the UK Electric Vehicle Association stated that Britain had more battery-electric vehicles on its roads than the rest of the world put together. On closer inspection these were in fact milk floats. Quite often their enormous batteries are charged all night in order to do a few hours of deliveries the following morning.

So, from an age when we were asked "Are you getting enough (milk that is)?", we had "Confessions of a milkman" and 1960's milk bars, Anthony Burgess his droogs and the Korova, our dominance of electric transport is also ebbing away.

Think on next time you reach for a couple of bricks of UHT in the Tesco Express.

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Northwich (show map)

Taken on: April 21, 2010

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