Milk-round in modern Ireland
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• A specialized milk collection tanker—the only one of its kind in the British Isles—is solving a problem which faced the Milk Marketing Board of Northern Ireland when it was found that frequently two of its vehicles were travelling the same route, one collecting bulk quantities and the other picking up cans from smaller producers.
The Board's new unit is designed to do both jobs and can cover a 70-mile collection route, compared with a 30-mile route for a truck collecting cans.
Small, mobile tanks with mechanical refrigeration are based at each farm and the tanker extracts the contents through suction equipment, a meter and a mechanical sampler. The 2,000gal specially insulated German-built tank is mounted on a 174in.–wheelbase Bedford KM chassis and a 2 hp 24V electric motor powers the pumping gear which is all housed at the rear.