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New Tanker for Milk Transport Experiment

26th February 1954
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Page 51, 26th February 1954 — New Tanker for Milk Transport Experiment
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A FODEN four-wheeler specially rl fitted with an insulated 1,500tallon aluminium tank by The A.P.V, =a, Ltd., Wandsworth Park, London, .W.18, is playing a major part in an !xperiment which the Scottish Milk Vfarketing Board are conducting in ‹,irkcudbrightshire.

The plan, which was fully described n The Commercial Motor on Novem)er 13 last, is patterned on an American trrangement whereby milk is stored in anks at farms and is then collected by arge road tankers.

At the present time about 160 ■ ehicles are employed carrying milk in kotland, the total cost of which is in he region of £1m. a year. If the Scottish experiment is successful, there should be a substantial saving in transport costs.

Equipment on the tanker includes a

2-in. stainless milk pump with motor and starter, a milk sampling device and a rack for storing sample bottles. A cable is carried 10 'connect the motor with a farm's electricity supply, and two 15-ft. lengths of hygienic hose are supplied to transfer milk from the farm tank —also installed by the A.P.V. company—to the vehicle.

'fhe bulk collection of milk offers many advantages to both the farmer and the creamery or dairy. The tank installations at farms are refrigerated, and the milk does not deteriorate in transit. It is measured, sampled and paid for at the farm, whereupon the farmer's responsibility ceases, and the need for churns and other expensive equipment is eliminated.

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