Vintage photos of AMSCOL, SA’s favourite milk

For decades, AMSCOL milk, cream and ice cream was the only choice for South Australians — take a nostalgic trip back through time with these pictures.

Lynton Grace

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October 15, 2019 - 3:49PM

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Amscol milk cartons, tubs of cream and a slab of butter, an image taken from the Adelaide Milk Supply Co-Operative Limited’s 54th annual report 1975.

1/18Amscol milk cartons, tubs of cream and a slab of butter, an image taken from the Adelaide Milk Supply Co-Operative Limited’s 54th annual report 1975.

2/18A colourised photo of an AMSCOL van from the 1930s. Colourisation by Peter Vasic, Past Colours

3/18AMSCOL ice-cream vans on the Torrens Parade Ground circa 1950. Source: State Library of SA / B-70545

4/18An AMSCOL icecream factory worker loads tubs of icecream on to trolly at the Carrington St factory.

5/18Inside the Amscol icecream factory, where a worker checks the boiler.

6/18AMSCOL ice cream lover Pamela Clark with one of the round 4L ice cream tins.

7/18A worker for the Metropolitan Milk Board compared a pint bottle of milk with the quart cartons when they were introduced in 1969.

Quart cartons of milk - Dairy Vale, Metro Milk, Farmers' Union and Amscol. "Convenience is what consumers want and convenience is what they get with milk sold in cartons." Used "The Chronicle" 29 Aug 1969. (Pic by unidentified staff photographer)

8/18Quart cartons of milk - Dairy Vale, Metro Milk, Farmers' Union and Amscol. "Convenience is what consumers want and convenience is what they get with milk sold in cartons." Used "The Chronicle" 29 Aug 1969. (Pic by unidentified staff photographer)