United Dairies

At first a wholesale business, in 1917 a large number of London retailers joined the company.

[1] So successful was the merger under chairman Sir Reginald Butler, that the company began to expand, buying other dairies and creameries across the United Kingdom.

After the war ended, it bought businesses in Birmingham, Cheshire, Liverpool, Sherbourne (Warwickshire) and Wales.

In the late 1920s, United Dairies helped pioneer the sale of pasteurized milk in Britain.

United Dairies operated milk trains with all four of the main railway companies.

The former United Dairies creamery at Melksham in 2009; the chimney has been greatly reduced in height
A United Dairies rail tanker, preserved at the Bluebell Railway
ex- LSW Drummond class T14 'Paddlebox' 4-6-0 No. 443 passing through Vauxhall having unloaded milk for the United Dairies depot at the same station, and then turned at Waterloo