Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

oiltreader:

rastone:

HRS:
Ah Ha !!! One of yours “Oiltreader”
Could the GLASS WORKS be the clue ■■? Harvey

Even railway tankers had those and they would be easier to wash out than metal.Oili I don’t thing stainless would be about then would it.

Tony

I was thinking back to my early days Tony and the milk churn collection from farms ,were the churns stainless steel? no, I read that they were galvanised iron and with regard to bulk transport, stainless steel tanks were introduced mid 1940s in the USA.
Oily

Until the 1950s milk churns were generally made from hot galvanised mild steel, made for example at the CWS Tinplate Works, Birtley, Co Durham. But just before the churns (technically milk cans) were phased out they started to appear in spun aluminium.