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

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!