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Dairy Outfit Co. Ltd (Manufacturer)

Pint-sized milk can marked 'The Milk Standard Can Trade Mark', and the name 'John Bucknell''Coley Park Farm, Reading'.
This pint-sized milk can is made of tinned metal. It is oval in shape, and has a hinged lid with several holes in it, a brass handle for carrying, and another smaller brass handle attached to the hinge. The hinge is marked 'The Milk Standard Can Trade Mark', the lid with the name 'John Bucknell', and the body of the can 'Coley Park Farm, Reading'. The name of the maker on the body of the can is very faint, but it appears to be 'Dairy Outfit Co.'. It was used at Coley Park Farm, in Reading, for the delivery of milk to customers.

1 Milk can: metal (brass); poor condition (holes in the lid)

Greater London [region]

1900-01-01 - 1949-12-31

Twentieth century, first half

Bucknell, John (Agent)