Job's Dairy - Milk Floats

Job's Milk Floats

Early beginnings - a horse drawn cart from Teddington Dairy

Job's milk floats were a very familiar sight in the towns and villages served by H.A. Job Limited. The livery of cream and red became synonymous with quality and reliability. Many people depended on their friendly Job's milkman for their daily supplies of milk, bread, potatoes, cream, orange juice and many other essential groceries.

This section is dedicated to the wide variety of Job's milk floats that delivered to customers come rain, shine, snow or floods.

Some of the model names and dates are unknown, so if you can give us more information about any particular models or if anything needs correcting please let us know by contacting us.

A hand cart outside the branch at Ealing, with measuring jugs hanging on the side

A small pony assists in pulling a heavily laden cart

A similar cart to the one pictured above - this time without the pony

An early version of the "Standon"

The electrically assisted "walkies" were a little easier to pull!

This W&E provided roundsmen with the luxury of an enclosed cab

Despite it's small wheels the Standon could usually deliver in all weathers

One of the motorised Trojans that were used for deliveries in more remote areas

The Bugden - the most common vehicle in the Job's milk float fleet.

The "Cabac" was popular but quite wide to manoeuvre in narrow streets

The "Jobac" - designed and built by Job's in the Body Repair Shop at Hanworth

E-mail recieved from Paul Lawrence:-

With regard to comments I made a while back about Bugdens having been scrapped, I have made progress in seeking them out. One of them survives at Amberley open air museum in Sussex. It is in working condition though currently awaiting some repairs. The other is 6491AP, of which photos are on the net of this one taken in the '80s. I was lucky to be able to aquire this and intend to return it to Job's livery (era undecided). It is currently off road in Unigate colours as when last in service. Are there any more out there?

(I have also been told that a few Jobacs survive in a college/colleges and a couple of Standons survive, though condition not known)

Kind regards

Paul Lawrence