Monster Mobile Bottle, Bass, Burton-on-Trent

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Date:1950 - 1970 (c.)

Description:The base of the bottle is the driver's cab, with a crown cork at the rear. It was constructed to be interchangeable, using BTW Bass and Worthington labels and corks. The bottle was made of fibreglass and had a diesel engine. The map location of this image is at Bass' Transport Depot, the site of the photograph being unknown.


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1900s
Stock yard at Bass, Burton-on-Trent
Stock yard at Bass, Burton-on-Trent

£100,000 worth of stacked oak staves in the Bass stock yard for making casks.

1920s
Cooper John Kerry at work, Bass, Burton-on-Trent
Cooper John Kerry at work, Bass, Burton-on-Trent

John Kerry driving on the end hoop of a cask. The other end has a trussing cable ...

1950s
Trussing in ceremony, Bass, Burton-on-Trent
Trussing in ceremony, Bass, Burton-on-Trent

Group of six coopers ready to drink a toast at the end of the apprentice cooper's ...

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Donor ref:97.1042.00 (27/4993)

Source: National Brewery Centre, Burton upon Trent

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