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Divco Milk Trucks in 1:43

David Knight · 2022-01-13T19:33:28Z

The poet e e cummings once wrote, “the cow is of the bovine ilk. one end is moo, the other milk.” Before the day of super markets when dairies delivered milk to your door, one company supplied virtually all the trucks needed to make these home deliveries. DIVCO (Detroit Industrial Vehicle Co) was in business from 1926 until 1986 when home delivery of dairy products essentially came to a halt and the demand for these purpose built trucks no longer existed. The iconic DIVCO milk truck was a fixture on American streets. Interest in these trucks continues among collectors to this day. Here are mine in 1:43 made by either Road Champs or later by American Heritagee both using the same molds. The American Heritage trucks have additional opening doors. Here is my collection with a few actual trucks sprinkled in among the 1:43 scale models where I could find them. The setting is by my 1:43 dairy barn in which is my herd of 40 prize Jersey cows

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Randy Rusk

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14/01/2022 9:14 pm

I like that David finds owning one copy of a model to be good, two to be better, and three to be best! Makes me feel practically normal when I say, “I’ll take one in every color!”

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Karl Schnelle

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15/01/2022 9:16 pm

@mg-harv https://www.carmodel.com/american-heritage-model/ahm43-020/1-43/divco/300c-van-sealtest-milk-dairy-products-1939/69024

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Harv Goranson

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15/01/2022 10:10 pm

@karl Well I missed that one! Will have to seek one out.

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David Knight

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Topic starter 16/01/2022 8:44 am

Randy, this Sealtest truck is the same gray and red color scheme of the High Lawn Farm Divco trucks. I missed this one too. High Lawn had seven of these so I’d go for a fleet of them too. How did I miss this one? Here is a photo of a High Lawn truck and a picture of our four sons taken circa 1981 standing by one of High Lawn’s abandoned Divcos.