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Informationen zum Autor Tom Phelps is a keen historian with more than thirty years experience working in the dairy industry! retiring as Area Manager for Thames Valley for Unigate Dairies. As a student! he successfully studied law and economics whilst doing vacation work as a milkman. He was co-organiser of his company's Long Service Corp Reunions and on retirement he became a voluntary Welfare Visitor. He has written several articles for magazines and papers. This is his first book. Klappentext Tracing the footsteps of British milkman over the past one hundred years! this book investigates the many changes that have taken place over the years! from the delivery of milk through a seventeen gallon churn to the gentle electric milk float. It also includes several photographs of the milkman at work. A highly illustrated history of the milkman and milk delivery in the last century. Zusammenfassung Tracing the footsteps of British milkman over the past one hundred years, this book investigates the many changes that have taken place over the years, from the delivery of milk through a seventeen gallon churn to the gentle electric milk float. It also includes several photographs of the milkman at work. Inhaltsverzeichnis ?The Early Milkman: Before 1900 /Pushing the Pram: 1900-19 /Stable Times: 1920-39 /Electrifying Times: 1940-59 /The New Order: 1960-79 /The Modern Milkman: 1980 to the Present /Further Reading and Places to Visit /Index
