GWR Milk Churn

This is a model of a milk churn used by the Great Western Railway to deliver milk to London and other cities in the early 20th Century. It carried 17 Imperial gallons of milk, and was carried on special express trains.

There are photographs and descriptions here.

http://www.gwr.org.uk/nochurns.html

The churns would be filled on farms, taken on carts to stations,, and thousands would be unloaded from one of the trains when it reached London. Empty ones were usually transported upside-down.

The final delivery was usually in bottles in the cities, but in rural England the housewife would bring out her own jug to the milkman, who would fill it from the church with a dipper, a long-handled measure.

This is scaled in proportion to standard SLRR tracks, rather than the nominal SL scale. So it looks right in the railway environment. Elsewhere, you may prefer to reduce it to 3/4 of the size as supplied.