Hi, does it have handsworth dairies on one side and birmingham dairy company on the other?
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Handsworth Dairies
- Thread starter mikejee
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Hi, yes it does. Thanks for the question.Hi, does it have handsworth dairies on one side and birmingham dairy company on the other?
Ok, i have one of those. This was when handsworth dairies took over the BDC (birmingham dairy company). Very nice find. Maybe earlswood lakes was a old bottle dump back in the 50s or maybe earlier depending on what you have foundHi, yes it does. Thanks for the question.
Thanks for the information, i thought from the style that it would be around the 1950's, when the light is better tomorrow I will try and get a good image up of both sides.
The dog I have is a retriever, he finds many bottles(tried discouraging him but it doesn't work), he has found many old milk bottles(co op , early ones but in all honesty they weren't kept and got recycled) the others have been old soda bottles with the vulcanised rubber screwtops and a few odds and ends bottle wise.
No there wasn't a bottle dump, it's just where they've been discarded by people whilst walking I believe. He's found them in various places throughout the woods, he's always off smelling things out or digging for mice etc.
That was really useful information, at least I know there's one more in existence lol.
The dog I have is a retriever, he finds many bottles(tried discouraging him but it doesn't work), he has found many old milk bottles(co op , early ones but in all honesty they weren't kept and got recycled) the others have been old soda bottles with the vulcanised rubber screwtops and a few odds and ends bottle wise.
No there wasn't a bottle dump, it's just where they've been discarded by people whilst walking I believe. He's found them in various places throughout the woods, he's always off smelling things out or digging for mice etc.
That was really useful information, at least I know there's one more in existence lol.
2 better images hopefully.
Image 1 :- https://postimg.cc/RW3dkrW3
Image 2:- https://postimg.cc/0zgKyhtK
These hopefully will be better than the ones that I posted last night, very hard to get a good image because the bottle is transparent.
Leave that with you all.
Image 1 :- https://postimg.cc/RW3dkrW3
Image 2:- https://postimg.cc/0zgKyhtK
These hopefully will be better than the ones that I posted last night, very hard to get a good image because the bottle is transparent.
Leave that with you all.
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I am not sure how many still follow this thread, but my father was 'Big' John white who was joint MD with David White through the 70's and 80's and the son of Carlton white ( Stephen, his brother died outside Caen after the D day landings as a tank commander for the 2nd Northampton Yeomanry). They brought Cartoning to the UK through deals with Tetra/Purpak and the first computerised production line for a dairy in Europe. Visionary in many ways. Jack White was David, Richard and Jon White's father and Carlton was my grandfather. It was an amazing business in the day and I worked holidays there, as did my brother Nigel and loved it. Nick White, David's son also worked there and Valerie Westwood (cousin of my father was also a director). The FD was John Cox. At the end of the day. despite great success, the milk business had to supply supermarkets, so they squeezed margins and the family saw the future and had to sell. I remember travelling up to 450 miles each day with 'Stan' to service clients who were short of product - great service. Can you imagine companies doing that today?
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Interesting note regarding Tetra-pack, two people one a phd the other an EE (who gave me the biggest opportunity in my life) were are Tetra-pack US in the 80’s and 90’s and were responsible for many product patents and process improvements there. They used many of the process flow, HMI techniques we had previously developed.I am not sure how many still follow this thread, but my father was 'Big' John white who was joint MD with David White through the 70's and 80's and the son of Carlton white ( Stephen, his brother died outside Caen after the D day landings as a tank commander for the 2nd Northampton Yeomanry). They brought Cartoning to the UK through deals with Tetra/Purpak and the first computerised production line for a dairy in Europe. Visionary in many ways. Jack White was David, Richard and Jon White's father and Carlton was my grandfather. It was an amazing business in the day and I worked holidays there, as did my brother Nigel and loved it. Nick White, David's son also worked there and Valerie Westwood (cousin of my father was also a director). The FD was John Cox. At the end of the day. despite great success, the milk business had to supply supermarkets, so they squeezed margins and the family saw the future and had to sell. I remember travelling up to 450 miles each day with 'Stan' to service clients who were short of product - great service. Can you imagine companies doing that today?
