United Dairies Milk Bottle
Bottles 1950s
Description
A United Dairies milk bottle of the 1950s.
United Dairies was formed in 1915 by a wartime merger of three dairies who pooled their resources to keep afloat and in 1917 several London retailers joined them. Headquartered in Trowbridge, the company continued its expansion after the war and helped pioneer the sale of pasteurised milk in the late 1920s. Many of their creameries were served by the railways, including their works at Vauxhall which received milk via a pipe at the station. In 1959 the company merged with rival Cow & Gate, creating Unigate, who sold off the dairy part of their business to Dairy Crest in 2000.