CHARLIE ATKINS

[Heartland]

The name on the side of the boat in June 1965 was Midland Canal Carriers, Wolverhampton. Has the story of this name been followed ?

[koukouvagia]

On 10/03/2021 at 17:06, Heartland said:

There is more to the history of crumb carriage than Charlie Atkins and there were more people associated with the trade included the Cadbury family who decided to use this form of transport in place of milk by train to Bourneville. The problem of milk going off on a goods train was considered a factor in the milk condensing process which led to canal transport from Knighton and Framilode. Then there is the innovative use of the Bolinder engine in their own craft and also the establishment of the Mary Vale Road depot. All this was going on when Charlie Atkins was still a child.     

I was told by a member of the Edwards family that Owl was used as a prototype to see if transport of chocolate chip by narrowboat was feasible.  I have not been able to verify this, however.

[koukouvagia]

On 10/03/2021 at 17:06, Heartland said:

  

Oops, double post. 

(BTW is there any way of deleting a post?)

Edited August 29, 2021 by koukouvagia

[MtB]

1 hour ago, koukouvagia said:

Oops, double post. 

(BTW is there any way of deleting a post?)

 

I've never found a way to remove a duplicate post. The closest one can get is to edit the post, replacing all the content with one single full stop. Or a 'stop' as people seem to call it nowadays. 

 

Might be possible to use a space instead, thus making the redundant post appear completely empty. 

[ditchcrawler]

2 hours ago, koukouvagia said:

I was told by a member of the Edwards family that Owl was used as a prototype to see if transport of chocolate chip by narrowboat was feasible.  I have not been able to verify this, however.

Came passed us last week on the Coventry Canal I think

[Heartland]

I understand that the system of carrying Crumb by boat was developed by Cadbury's they had issues with milk delivered, in churns, by railway wagon in the summer. This would predate OWL