| Later Years
The company continued to be extremely successful and the milk
bottling and ice-cream production departments expanded rapidly
and gained a high reputation in the Midlands area. There were
many depots throughout the country including the following in
the West Midlands:
| Bearwood |
| Birmingham –
Corporation Street |
| Birmingham –
Manchester Street |
| Blackheath |
| Brierley Hill |
| Coventry |
| Erdington |
| Kingstanding |
| Quinton |
| Solihull |
| Walsall |
| West Bromwich |
| Wolverhampton –
Fern Road (egg packing station) |
| Wolverhampton –
Heath Town |
| Wolverhampton –
Penn Road |
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One of the successful battery-powered delivery
vehicles.
A later type of delivery vehicle.
By the 1960s the Wolverhampton dairy and the Birmingham dairy filled
750,000 bottles of milk daily and the company employed 3,000 people. In
1963 a new bottling plant was built at Perry Point in Birmingham and the
business was taken over by Unigate. In 1973 Lyons Maid bought an 85%
controlling share.
A Unigate delivery vehicle.
| Penn Road Dairy closed in 1984 and was demolished in 1988 to
make way for the McDonalds drive-in restaurant. |
The dairy awaiting its fate, after closure in
1984.
The closed dairy, seen from Penn Road in the mid
1980s.
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