Wheels: Remembering Divco delivery trucks

Before there were food delivery apps, there was food delivery. Not meals, more like ingredients or components. The milkman brought dairy products, the baker came with bread, there might have been a pie man delivering desserts, fresh fish would have made its way by wagon or truck to the inland towns direct from the docks, and ice delivery was necessary to keep it all cold and preserved in the days before effective mechanical refrigeration.

The town I lived in last had a neighboring dairy. Even as the encroaching housing developments choked out his fields he still clung to his way of life and we were all the better for it. Bobby would make his standing order delivery of milk, eggs and butter, and my kids still remember with watering mouths his wife's homemade cinnamon bread. Sometimes, if there was time on the farm there might be ice cream in the freezer.