This bottle is an early model, which as you point out had a wax coated cardboard top with a centre hole which could be pressed out to enable you to use a straw to drink from the bottle. The later bottles had the name in green. I can remember Ivy Everett who worked in the dairy having to press the lids in by hand, as the bottling machine which filled 12 bottles at a time, 6 either side of the revolving platform was not equipped for sealing the tops. Automatic sealing was introduced with the narrow neck bottles.
By Arthur Hall (12/12/2012)
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This bottle is an early model, which as you point out had a wax coated cardboard top with a centre hole which could be pressed out to enable you to use a straw to drink from the bottle. The later bottles had the name in green. I can remember Ivy Everett who worked in the dairy having to press the lids in by hand, as the bottling machine which filled 12 bottles at a time, 6 either side of the revolving platform was not equipped for sealing the tops. Automatic sealing was introduced with the narrow neck bottles.