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----- Original Message ----- From: "D P Ingram" <[log in to unmask]> > Thank you (everyone) for the entertaining and illuminating response. > When I was younger the milk bottles came in a crate but they had bits > in between so making storage harder ! > > And in Finland we have these Tetra-Pak (R) cartons. Milk bottles were > a very, very, very long distant memory for many. > Well, in the earliest days of mass delivery of milk to grocery stores, metal crates (made of a sort of very heavy wire) were used...and they, themselves were quite heavy. This would be mid-sixties and earlier, and I think I still have one among my massive archive of highly miscellaneous artifacts...! ...stevenc