Bordens 1:43 Divco Milk Truck, finally after all these years!

Guess I'm gonna hafta spring for one of those.  I can still remember them on the streets of  Milwaukee back in the good old days.  You did have to get up pretty early in those mornings to see those trucks making home deliveries.  Those milkmen would get up in the wee hours of the morning and be pretty much done for the day by 9:00 or 10:00 o'clock.

 

Paul Fischer

Thanks Steve for the pictures....the truck looks really great.  I am wondering if the figure is to scale....seems a little large compared to the truck???

 

Alan

Yup been a long wait for that one  Next we need a Dugans Divco  

Where do I get one?

 

Howard

It would be nice to have one in "Meadow Gold Dairies". Jersey Farms, or so southern company

Steve

 

That looks great !!!!!!!!!!!

and of course your scenery is outstanding

 

Alex

 

 

 

Howard I just ordered one here's the link

 

http://www.hobbylinc.com/cgi-b..._s=AHC43014&ss=1

 

Alex

Those of you from north of Chicago will remember Hawthorn Mellody Farms.

 

http://www.lib.luc.edu/special...8109eed3d560bada.jpg

Yup, need a DUGANS.

 

I bought the last one from Modeltrainstuff.com 

Ask Bob for more. $29.00

 

The figure is larger than scale I believe but he is quite real looking.

The only other thing that I noticed is the wipers should hang down from the top of the windshield.

Could be another version of the Divco?

I painted silver on the backs of the doors and bottle holder. Added 1/2 red bottle tops to the full ones and touched up some of the paint. Attached a NY Plate on the back.

Added decal numbers (my b-day)

Added some weathering also.

Die Cast Direct has them @ $34.95.

The fleet arrived last week.

 

I agree that the Borden Divco milk truck is great, and I'll probably pick one up.   Does anyone know if a Divco truck for Plasticville has ever been produced?  That's the one I'm really waiting for - for the Christmas tree layout.  Who can I contact to pass along my request? 

BReese; they make a Meadow Gold Divco

Nice truck Steve!

 

I am wondering if the figure is to scale....seems a little large compared to the truck???

 

LOL!  Have you seen the Buick commercial with Shaquille O'Neal sitting in a LaCrosse?

 

Just think of the milkman as an ex-football player, he sure looks happy

 

Did he come with the truck?

I thought the same thing when I scaled the figure at 1 5/8-inches.  In 1:48 land that would 6' 6".  But in 1:43 land which these are that is 5' 9 7/8" tall.

 

Steve, like the addition of the numbers.  I am trying to think to way back when about any and/or how the local trucks were numbered.

 

Ron

Thanks for the pictures and the link. I've just ordered one too. So in a few weeks time there should be one sitting on my layout. 

I havn't seen one that has a proper paint job. They were cream with dark greenish/gray fenders, hood. I should know as I drove them 1961-1965 in Queens Village, N.Y.

 

Neil Kresge

I personally love the Divco models. They would look great on most layouts. Nice addition SIRT.

I've seen some nice ones painted for the Detroit area's "Twin Pines" Creamery.

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Dennis

Does it come with the figure, or did you get him elsewhere?

 

Chris

LVHR

I like this one..

Joe

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9eqKzbSBgE

I just ordered a Twin Pines Dairy version. Even though I am modeling the west side of the state, Twin Pines Dairy was dominate in the Detroit area up to the mid 60's.

#753

 

 

Man seeing that Dugans truck I can still taste the chocolate donuts

Put me down for a Dugan's truck as well. Brings back fond, tasty memories!

 

Mike

I would love to have one lettered for Ewald Bros dairy in Minneapolis. I have looked online and cannot even find a picture of the Ewald Bros logo. The letters were drawn to look like logs.

I received two of the Bordens trucks last week. Great color, They are welcome on my layout.

 

Note to anyone interested they are available in 1:43 and 1:87.

Anyone know if they have done a Flav-O-Rich Divco truck?

 

Neal Jeter

Brent; got my Meadow Gold @ Diecast Direct

I forgot to mention earlier that I was talking about a Dugan truck being cream and green/gray Neil

In my childhood, I well remember those Dugan trucks coming and going at their warehouse on Atlantic Avenue in Woodhaven, Queens, NY. I did NOT know the name of their delivery vans at that time, but they certainly were DISTINCTIVE!

Steve, I also thought that the wipers hung down from above the windshield but searching today see that at least to the late 40's they swung from the bottom of the windshield.

 

The one thing that did not look correct is the doors opening like school bus doors.  As I remember it the doors swung backward.  Looking at the pictures found they were some kind of by-fold arrangement that swung to the rear of the opening.  But there is noway they could model that in such a small scale.  And with doors closed these look perfectly OK.  Am very happy with my four truck fleet. 

I guess I caught the fever... I just ordered a Twin Pines.

 

>>>I guess I caught the fever... I just ordered a Twin Pines<<

 

If you look closely at your shot of the Twin Pines Divco, windshield wipers are correctly attached at the roof line..

I've have the Twin Pines. A very nice model..

I also like the modern version of a Divco..

Joe

http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/...54-divco-milk-truck/

  

I am anxiously awaiting the Mayfield 1:43 Divco milk truck that Diecast Direct announced was coming last year...   thus far, nothing.

 

Steve, does Mayfield serve your part of Tennessee like my area?

Since we are all on the subject of these awesome trucks, does anyone remember this truck. They use to come around in my neighborhood years ago and sharpen your knives and scissors. Boy does this bring back some memories. I would like to see this made in O scale.

 

Alex

 

RE: Dugan's

 

We lived on 92nd Street just off Atlantic Ave. and at the end of our street, we had a wonderful German bakery called Busch's.

 

Their FRESH baked goods were far superior to Dugan's more mass-produced goods, so even with a Dugan's outlet within walking distance to our home, we always chose Busch's!

 

Ahhh.....I can almost smell that heavenly aroma from their exhaust fans! 

Alex, I think that green truck went to SI via the 59th St. Ferry.

 

Don't forget the ORANGE Holtermann's Bakery Vans...

 

 

 

Steve 

 

Holtermann's bakery is still in business as of today, and going strong

 

Alex

I really like these Divco milk trucks.  I'm waiting for one for Maine's largest dairy still in business, Oakhurst Farms Dairy.  In fact they even have a Divco truck that they use for special events.  How about it, Diecast Direct?

You guys who are pining for a special Divco...  Be advised that Diecast Direct has them available in all white and/or all cream colored as a starting point for doing your own custom job.  FI, finding the Dugan's logo online shouldn't be too difficult.  If you can capture it, photoshop to size, you might be able to make your own decals...commonly done nowadays.

 

http://www.diecastdirect.com/a...ProductCode=AHM43-BW

 

http://www.diecastdirect.com/a...ProductCode=AHM43-CR

 

Just a thought...

 

Of course, 'patience' is the other alternative.

 

I'm waiting for the Sealtest one that delivered our milk in Washington, D.C. when I was growing up.  Thompson's Dairy was also in that area...also delivered in the ubiquitous Divco's.

 

This is one of those products that could keep the Chinese busy for YEARS catering to our memories!!

 

Just got the Borden's truck a little while ago. Thanks Steve.

 

Andy

Is there one of you that may be willing to part with the display case that your truck came in? I have the Diaper Service Divco can that I purchased just before my granddaughter was born but no case. Her name is Lilly and I just bought the Lilly Produce delivery truck and want to put them both away for her. Willing to pay for shipping and for the case if necessary! Thanks, Ken

 

Strogey, you are welcome to one of my 1:43 Divco delivery truck display case and box, give me your address.

 

By the way,I have a great grandaughter named Lilly.

Ditto!  

My Borden's Truck arrived Saturday. I may get one of the cream-colored undecorated for decorating as a local Guilford Dairy Truck.

Also like to have a Sealtest version.

Thanks for the post. I forgot I had stashed away a white truck and a cream truck, both undecorated. Allan, now that you mention it, I think our milkman was a Sealtest truck. My mind is going. Will have to ask my brother if he remembers.

 

I do remember opening the bottle and getting the cream off the top.

Hey Don, When I worked for Center Auto Supply in the 60's I would call on the Borden's Milk Garage on one of the side streets off Honeyspot Road in Stratford, selling auto parts and filling their KEM ignition cabinet with ignition parts.

 

Just  trying to help your memory. Good Luck, Casey.

 

The garage and lot was always full of the Divco's that looked exactly like the new American Heritage Bordens Truck.

Casey, I used to go Center Auto Supply! Maybe you waited on me. Maybe it was Borden's then. thanks.

Guys:  Down in Canfield, OH, just outside of Youngstown and just down the street from the  World Headquarters of "0" Gauge Railroading, at T.P Tool Corporation, they have a beautifully restored sample of a Divco milk truck painted in, none other than The Borden Milk Colors of Die Cast direct.  you can go down and shoot photos of the way the "real" one looks, to this very day!

 

Paul Fischer

Casey....I was going to send you an email but your address is not in your profile. Can you please send me an email to the address in my profile?

 

Thank you for your offer!

Ken

Ken, E-mail sent, I hope you get it, not very good at this computer stuff.

IMHO   the  best looking one out of them all. Course you ll need the creamery and Ice house to go with it.  

 

 

 

 

WooHooo!   My Bordens Divco truck has arrived today. It arrived quicker than I expected too. Only 18 days from placing the order until it arrived at my door. That is pretty good for Air Mail.

It is indeed a lovely model, and I am very impressed by the interior detail. 

 

 

 

 

I've been dreaming of this variation labeled Jack Daniels or Johnny Walker . . .

In addition to Borden's milk delivered.  I remember, as a kid,  Larsen's Bakery delivered by truck in Westerleigh on Staten Island, to my house.  The bakery may have been in Brooklyn(?). 

Just put mine on the layout....I love it!!!

 

Alan

Just ordered the Borden's truck from ModelTrainStuff after seeing Sirt's magnificent Weekend Photos.