Milk Bottle Tops

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28728, 28 October 1958, Page 3

Milk Bottle Tops

Sir, —“Teat’s” letter suggests that selling milk in bottles with foil tops is a godsend. They are the devil itself, largely because of archaic delivery crates designed for when the Ark was on the ’Frisco run. Perfectly practical milk bottles or crates do not yet exist. Defects of foiltop bottles are brittle sides and tops. Dangerous splinters of glass abound in contemporary crates, and presumably, as powder sink through bottle contents. Foils when delivered are often chafed through and loose. In these homely things desired perfection remains elusive. More difficult to ascertain to what dictatorial group or “authority” one can democratically address comment. The contortion suggests itself where the butcher pays a farmer about £1 for the weight of a pig’s head incurs further costs, then sells it for 3s while it is not the gig that squeals but the farmer and consumer. Surely a familiar but equally absurd precedent for introducing these bottles.—Yours, etc., H. F. BAIRD. October 25, 1958.