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THE DIVCO NEWS & MULTI-STOP
MAGAZINE
"OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE
DIVCO CLUB OF AMERICA"]
The July, 2008 Issue  is now being mailed!
SOME OF THE ARTICLES INSIDE INCLUDE:
 | AACA Multi-Stop Display: A new display of Multi-Stop delivery trucks, organized by Jay Crist is now
being featured in the Antique Auto Club of America Museum in Hershey, PA. Jay gives
us photos and details. But it will only be there this summer!
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| Macungie Memories: Again this year, a number of DCoA members displayed their trucks at the
Antique Truck Club of America show in Macungie, PA. Barb Parmelee has a rundown of
who showed what, who showed up, and who chowed down as well.
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| Pretty in Paint & Stencils: Nick Tisch is coming ever closer to having a fully restored truck.
This episode of his progress has his truck undergoing a beauty treatment in the paint
shop.
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| Authentic Mat Finish: Want really authentic "tired" floor mats for your delivery
truck? We've got the scoop on the latest company to custom make them, perfectly fit
to go into your Divco or other Multi-Stop!
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| A Look in the Laundry: Ken Lego's Boyertown Photo Essay this issue features laundry trucks made
by the Boyertown Body Co.
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| Looking Back at Schuring's: In a Photo Essay Extra, Ken explores the visual history of an Illinois
Dairy Distributor that's gone through several generations of changes, in products,
represented dairies, and even management.
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| One Sweet (Briar) Truck: We've featured Ed and Dottie Sokola's 1957 Model 154 before, when it was
custom restored by a Texas school class as a class project. Now it's all done over
in a customized (and imaginary) dairy paint scheme, and it's a beauty!
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| Divco Movies "Fer Shure!": In his "Straight from the Media" column, John Straight lists
movies that featured Divco trucks as bit players. The column also features a
pharmaceutical print ad with a Divco.
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| Time to Choose: Election time is drawing near. We have reprinted the list of
candidates for our Board of Directors, and this time included their photographs as well.
Watch for the offical election ballot coming soon by a separate mailing.
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| Plus the Toy Chest, Letters, Classifieds, Divco
Literature and much more. But you have to be a member to receive this issue!
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This issue is only available to current Divco Club
members. To join, click HERE for a convenient mail-in
application form.
The May, 2008 Issue  is now available as a back
issue!
SOME OF THE ARTICLES INSIDE INCLUDE:
| Meet the Nominees: After a
lot of work, and a lot more discussion, the nominations for Directorship of the Divco Club
of America have closed, and we have a first look at all eleven nominees, including brief
biographies of all the candidates.
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| Director or Worker: Which do We Need?:
In his Director's Column, Dr. Stan Bourdon poses that question, and cites a number of
members who got involved doing the recent work of the club. He also makes
suggestions for the upcoming Director's Election.
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| New Directories Being Mailed: Along
with this issue, the 2008 Divco Club of America Membership Directory is being
included in the mailing. It took a lot of work to bring it to you, but it's
here at last. This article details what it took!
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| Movin' On in Macks:
This issue's Boyertown Photo Essay is all about Bodies by Boyertown making Mack Moving
Vans.
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| Back to the Beginning: Pete Ellis started out delivering milk in a Divco. Now he's come
full circle, resurrecting an old truck and returning it to his delivery fleet.
Divco's Rule!
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| A Century of Bell Ringing: In
this Photo Essay Extra, Ken Lego takes a look at the 100th Anniversary of Blue Bell
Creamery of Brenham, TX. He shares vintage views of some of their ice cream delivery
fleet.
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| Return of Detroit Electric:
George Bacon, the engineer who designed the predecessor of the Divco Milk Truck, was Chief
Engineer of the Detroit Electric Automobile factory. Now that venerable
manufacturer's name has returned on a new line of electric vehicles designed to combat the
fuel price crisis. Bif Florey outlines some of the "new technology"
vehicles now hitting the market.
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The March, 2008 Issue  is now being mailed.
SOME OF THE ARTICLES INSIDE INCLUDE:
| Getting Involved: Many
members got involved in this issue's preparation, from writing columns to organizing truck
shows and club activities for this summer. This issue has all the details and more!
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| AACA Museum Display:
Through the efforts of Jay Crist, Ted Merritt and Ed O'Brien, there will be a
"History of Multi-Stop Delivery" display this summer at the Antique Auto Club of
America Museum in Hershey, PA.
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| Local & Regional Shows: You
don't have to wait for 2009's convention to see Divcos and other multi-stop trucks.
Thanks to several members, we'll be appearing in regional and local shows this summer.
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| Al Marshall recalls John Nicol:
Member Al Marshall played a major role in selling Divco trucks for many years. And
he had personal knowledge of Divco's undisputed leader, John Nicol. In this issue he
begins telling stories about him.
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| Down Memory "Lane": Tom
Lane starts off our series of "Memory Lane" features in this issue by showing us
his restored 1963, designed to look like the trucks he remembered as a child.
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| Trucks of Baker's Dairy: For
years Baker's Dairy provided quality Golden Guenrsey milk for customers around Moline, IL.
And they had a neat fleet of Divcos to do it. Ken Baker takes us back to
those "good ole" days.
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| Boyertown Moblie Showrooms:
Ken Lego takes us inside several Boyertown Merchandiser Vans set up to sell while on the
road.
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| Plus the Thorne Corner,
Divco Toychest, Literature, Club Mailbox, classifieds, Lego-Land and much more!
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The January, 2008 Issue  is now at available as a back
issue.
SOME OF THE ARTICLES INSIDE INCLUDE:
| Getting Involved: In a
column written by the Directors, Dr. Stan Bourdon reviews the results of the recent survey
conducted to assess the value of adopting new bylaws, and he discusses where and how we go
from here.
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| Organic Divco: Our Cover
Story features a Divco owned and operated by all-organic Castle Rock Farms of Osseo, WI.
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| Jesse's 2007 Divco: You
read right... Jessie Burrows has a Divco registered as a 2007 Street Rod! And Rick
Goes' Custom Corner Column gives all the details!
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| Borden's Trucks at 150 - Part II:
Over 150 years ago, Gail Borden started his first condensed milk business. That firm
grew by leaps and bounds, so that it celebrated its 150th Anniversary in 2007. In
the second installment of his epic photo essay, Ken Lego traces the look of Borden's motor
fleet over the ensuing years.
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| Colorado Climber: Ken
Campbell takes us up Pikes Peak (at least most of the way) in his 1951 Divco Model 11, and
surprises a police roadblock on the way back down.
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| The Summer of Divco: What
did you do last summer? Richard Munro toured car shows in Michigan with his Divco
and garnered a bunch of prizes. He gives us the details.
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| Unusual Boyertown Deliveries:
Ken Lego also takes us on a photographic tour of some of the unique styles of streamlined
trucks put out by the Boyertown Body Works for clients in Pennsylvania, during the
remarkable 1930s and 1940s.
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| Plus the Thorne Corner,
Divco Toychest, Literature, Club Mailbox, classifieds, Lego-Land and much more!
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The November, 2007 Issue  is now available as a back issue.
SOME OF THE ARTICLES INSIDE INCLUDE:
| Why Insurance: In a column
written by the Directors, Dr. Stan Bourdon tackles the question of why the club spends so
much to buy insurance. He tackles it by asking an expert, member Ted Merritt.
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| Annual Club Dinner: The
AACA Hershey Fall Car Show is history, and so is the fabulous dinner arranged for DCoA
members and friends by Barb Parmelee. In this issue Barb follows up with a rundown
of the evening, including some of the great prizes made by members, donated by members,
and won by members and guests at the event.
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| Milk Trucks on Parade: For
the second year in a row, participants in the AACA Fall Hershey Car Show lined up their
milk trucks and paraded into the show grounds, amid great response from the crowds lining
the route. Jay Crist has all the details, from a driver's and participant's
perspective.
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| Stepping Back to Move Ahead:
In our cover story, Les Bagley reports on Wilcox Family Farms, a nearly 100-year-old
family business, and major Puget Sound area dairy and egg supplier, that in this modern
day, is taking a step back in dairy history. They're starting home delivery routes
for the very first time.
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| Did Butler Beat Bacon?:
Everybody knows George Bacon designed the early Divcos with multi-point controls, making
them the darlings of early home delivery. But what about Jay Butler? John
Rienzo unearths information about an obscure inventor who created a rear-control Ford.
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| Borden's at 150: To honor
Borden's 150th Anniversary this year, Ken Lego takes us on a photographic journey through
the history of their logos, vehicles and images. In Part 1 of his epic photo essay,
he shows us early horse-drawn vehicles, the firm's first motorized truck, and some early
motorized home delivery units.
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| Holiday Stuff for the Divco Nut:
Our annual rundown of what's new and neat for gift giving this holiday season, including:
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We've
Got you Covered: Brackney Hills Knitting introduces
a wonderful new 5'x5' Divco designed stadium blanket!
The Fine Art of Delivery: California
artist Scott Moore creates milk truck poster art in multiple perspectives. A
beautiful new wall hanging you'll want to frame and display .
"Divco-The Little Milk Truck": Matt Kreitz takes us behind the scenes of a new children's book
featureing, what else?
All in Scale: The long
awaited first views of Dennis Deal's new scale model Divcos in 1:43 and 1:87 (HO) scales
from Diecast Direct.
The September, 2007 Issue  is now available as a back issue.
SOME OF THE ARTICLES INSIDE INCLUDE:
| Welcome Dr. Bourdon: With the resignation of Director John S. Rienzo,
Jr., Dr. Stanley Bourdon has been selected as a new Director of the Divco Club of America.
In his own words he describes how he became interested in Divco, and club doings.
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| Annual Club Dinner: Once again Barb Parmelee is planning a night to
remember for Divco Club members and milk truck fans. We have complete details of
where, when, and how much, along with a report about the club's participation (or lack
thereof) in the Hershey AACA Car Show this year.
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| More Divco Doin's this Summer: In our "Member News"
feature, we feature news of members, and what they've been doing this summer with Divcos
and other multi-stop trucks at some of America's best loved automobile and truck shows.
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| A Meeing of Milk Truck, Meat and the Media: Jay Crist and his
Divco/Twin star in a meat market commercial, and Jay fills us in on all the gorey (or at
least simulated) details.
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| Old Truck-New Superstore: If you live on the East Coast, you may
have heard of Stew Leonard's. Ron Sussman had, and he'd also heard they had a
restored Divco. Ron caught up with it at the opening of their new Stew Leonard's
Superstore, and he shares the photos, while we elaborate with more information about the
company and its history.
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| Cream of his Collection: Brian Bower was recently featured in an article
about his milk bottle and milk truck collecting hobby. We reprint it in its
entirerity, by permission.
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| A Day in the Dessert: Ken Lego treats us to a photo essay on the trucks
of Anderson Dairy in Las Vegas. He also takes a look at another side of Boyertown
bodied vehicles.
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| Then and Now: John Straight returned to the same street scene and
reproduced it, complete with Divco, nearly 60 years later!
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| Plus the Thorne Corner, Divco Toychest, Mailbox, classifieds, Lego-Land
and much more!
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| Click here for a
convenient order form and an index of ALL our back issues.
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The July, 2007 Issue
is now available as a back issue.
Special 28 PAGE ISSUE....
Includes a great color cover!
SOME OF THE ARTICLES INSIDE INCLUDE:
| Still Doing Divcos: Christiansen's Dairy in North Providence, RI still
sends a fleet of Divco milk trucks onto the streets every delivery day. Bob Goveau
and his wife visited with owners Jay and Deb Christiansen, and got a first person tour of
the plant, the truck fleet, and even some great photos, which they share.
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| Convention Recap: The folks at the Shatto Milk Company really know how
to throw a party, and DCoA members and milkmen from all over the continent enjoyed a bunch
of them during the Milkmen's Reunion and 2007 Divco Club of America Convention in Cameron,
MO. We've got the words to describe it, and the pictures to prove it!
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| Canada's Dairy Museum: North of the border, Andre Van Kasteren and
his wife Lotty have created a wonderful museum to the dairy industry and the "good
old days" not so long ago. The Van Kasterens share their vision, and their
museum in an article.
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| Milk Trucks at Macungie: Once again DCoA members created
"Milky Way Lane" under the shade tree at the Antique Truck Club of America
(ATCA) annual gathering in Macungie, PA. Barb Parmelee recaps the weekend with text
and photos.
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| Mirrored McFlurry: Picture a mirror ball in the shape of a
Divco. Now picture it full size, in fact picture it as a real truck, used in a
Japanese McDonalds commercial so successfully, that the "star" was shipped to
Japan for personal appearances!
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| Seeing Red: Mike Buiter shares details of the restoration of his 1951
Model 11 Divco.
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| A Most Rare Delivery: What would happen if the two most rare Divcos in
existence hit the road together? Find out in this report by Jay Crist, who happened
to deliver them back home to Ohio. See the world's only remaining Model A Divco AND
a fully restored Model H Divco, all on the same page, and in the same photo!
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| Summer Vending Trucks: Ken Lego's Boyertown column illustrates the
trucks built for summertime sales on city streets.
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| Milk Days and More: Ken also treats us to a Photo Essay Extra, the
trucks of Dean's Foods and how their logos have changed over the years. He uses a parade
at this year's Milk Days in Harvard, IL as an introduction.
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| Building a (TOY) Divco One Block at a Time: This issue we have more information about toy delivery trucks than ever.
A real Lego® Divco in toy scale, a scale custom Divco car hauler, and word about a
line of all new Divco models coming soon!
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| Making a Muscle Milk Truck: Our Custom Column this issue features Rick Christiansen's "Muscle
Milk" Divco, created to promote a product from Cytomax. It's a winner!
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| Plus: columns from our other regular contributors,
Letters, Classified Ads & More!
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Click here for a convenient
order form and an index of ALL our back issues.
The May, 2007 Issue
is now available as a back issue.
Includes a great color
cover!
SOME OF THE ARTICLES INSIDE INCLUDE:
| Mike the Milktruck: Boise
State University in Idaho has a perennial tailgater... Mike, the vehicular mascot of Kappa
Sigma fraternity attends all the Bronco's home football games. Mike is a Divco
milktruck. And he's a legend in Boise. We have all the details.
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| Convention Update: All
the last-minute details of our big Divco Club Convention and Milkmen's Reunion scheduled
for late June in Cameron, Missouri. Don't miss out. This is the last update
before the big event!!!
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| A Milkman and a "Roll" Model: David Christensen recalls his grandfather, his links to the West Michigan
Dairy Industry, and some of the multi-stop delivery trucks he drove.
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| A Temp Fuel Gauge:
What do NOS Divco temperature gauges and Divco fuel gauges have in common? It turns
out, the answer it quite a lot! Nick Tisch provides all the "inside" scoop
on their interchangeability .
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| Special Delivery: You've probably seen the Gatorade AM TV commercial the permiered in the
2007 Superbowl. Lots of people called it to our attention, so we called the
advertising agency that created it, and got the inside track on how it was made.
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| West's COE Divco: He's
been building it for a long time, but the end results were well worth it! Rick Goes'
"Custom Corner" welcomes a guest author, Jil McIntosh, who reports on Norm
West's unique creation.
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| Mystery Truck Solved: Bif
Florey's Thorne Gas-Electric column answers the mystery identity of the truck shown last
issue. And he has the first views of another operable Thorne we haven't seen before!
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| Repeat Boyertown Customer Profile: Ken Lego's Boyertown column illustrates the trucks built for Maier's
Bakery.
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| Recalling Carolina: Ken
also treats us to a Photo Essay Extra, the trucks of Carolina Dairy, of Shelby, North
Carolina.
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The March, 2007 Issue
is now available as a back issue.
Includes a great color
cover!
SOME OF THE ARTICLES INSIDE INCLUDE:
| Saved from the Scrapper: In this issue's cover story, Jeff Barner relates how he saved his former
Shamrock Dairy truck, on a whim, from a scrap yard.
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| Restoring Jugs: Mike
Chapin' Divco license plate reads, "Jugs." The truck it's on is a nicely
restored 1955. But it wasn't always so. He tells us the story.
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| Winter Find: You'll
never guess what Nick Tisch found in the snow, just 5 miles from his home. Now if he
can just convince the owner to sell it....
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| Doing Dairy at 81:
The milk business is in Bob Fleugel's blood. How else can you explain that he's
still delivering dairy products as a distributor for Swiss Valley Farms at the age of 81?
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| Dairy on an Island: Dennis Calnan tells the story of his Divco Days at Calnan's Dairy on a
Lake Ontario island across from Rochester, NY.
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| A Boyertown Family Portrair: Ken Lego presents the long and the short of Boyertown Multalloy Bodies.
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| Mystery Truck: Bif
Florey's Thorne Gas-Electric column has a mystery. And he's hoping you can help
solve it!
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| Notes: Dave
Christensen gives us some dairy notes from West Michigan
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