Clovers give you lovely ground cover, not to speak of all the hours of "pleasure" you will spend in trying to find one with four leaves. They also have white or pink flowers, which are most attractive.
Our third card is actually the first appearance of any picture of a Clover Dairies issue on our site - though I may add some more as I work back through the newsletters. Now there is something about the clover that I only just realised, and that is that in a set of playing cards, we have a suit called clubs, but in France they call that suit trefles, or trefoils/three leaved clovers. And to be honest it looks much more like a clover than a club, so does anyone know how we came to call them clubs and not clovers?
Clover Dairies started in Grimsby, in the 1920s, and their head office was in Victoria Street. They were bought by Northern Dairies in the mid 1970s.
Their cards first appear in our original British Trade Index part two, but not this set. That has to wait until our original British Trade Index part three, where it is listed, with another new set, "People and Places". Our entry reads :
CLOVER DAIRIES Ltd. - CMM in II. Add series issued 1972-3
- BRITISH RAIL. 68 x 36. Nd. (25). See Db.238 ... CMM-7
Now I`m going to change track for a minute, as the "D" codes first appear in our British Trade Index part two, and sure enough this set is there, listed as :
- D238. BRITISH RAIL or BRITISH RAILWAYS. Nd (25)
Hitchman`s Dairies - Set HIT-4 (British Railways)
George Payne - Set PCH-12 (British Railways)
Phillips Tea - Set PHI-1 (British Rail)
This information is not repeated in our original British Trade Index part three, but it is cross referenced back, presumably because it was expected you also had the other volume. So all that is printed in our original British Trade Index part three is as follows :
- Db.238. BRITISH RAIL or BRITISH RAILWAYS. Add CLOVER DAIRIES Set CMM-7 ("British Rail")
Now if we move forward to our updated British Trade Index, the one issued in the year 2000, that lists our set as :
CLOVER DAIRIES Ltd
Issued 1964-73. Size 68 x 37
- BRITISH RAIL. 1973. Nd. (25). See HX-99 ... CLO-060