One of the first industries to develop early last century on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia was dairying, and as the 1920s opened this would flourish with milking either by hand or machine. Then in 1923, the South Australian Farmers Co-Op Union opened a butter factory in the town of Stansbury. On the farm, the farmer would separate the cream from the milk, with the cream being poured into cans, while the separated milk was used as pig or calf feed.

In order to get the cream to the factory, a fleet of four trucks known as ‘cream lorries’ was used. These  trucks made a twice weekly round to each farm to pick up the cream in cans, dropping off the empty cans picked up on the previous round. The trucks would travel as far as Maitland, 45 miles (72km) and Ardrossan 37 miles (59km) to the north, and as far south as Corny Point 48 miles (77kms). The cream cans were picked up direct from the dairy on the farm. The factory employed 10 to 12 people of which 4 were lorry drivers.

While no information is at hand as to the make of the trucks used, a photog