"Every bubble's passed its FIZZical!" yelped the Ernie Bilko-voiced Head Bubble in the cartoon ads for this knobbly-bottled orangeade. Very popular in the '70s. The idea of devouring an entire army of bubbles and then belching out their remains appealed to the juvenile mind.
Do You Remember Corona soft drinks?
Do You Remember Corona soft drinks?
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Jackcorona
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My grandad worked as a van sales man in colwwyn bay North walse doing door to door and shops sales. I have had many good times being told different stories. Some good and some bad the best seem to be about the lorrie boys used to get up to and my granad had to get them out of trouble. My grandad passed away last year he was know as jack corona ( John parry jones ) he died at the age off 91 . He had to retire in 1976 due to having a heartatac at the wheel off his lorrie . I have been looking for photos of my grandad or any off the colwwyn bay factory and would be great full if any one has any or any stories to share.
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mart
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I worked as a van boy and driver/salesman in Cardiff in 1970s. After starting as a weekend job found out my Grandad had been one of the early Thomas & Evans men based in Merthyr and then Leicester in the 1930s.
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Lizhowe
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My dad was one of the original van boys in the Rhondda in the 1920s! He ended up as Area Manager (East Anglia) for The Beecham Group who took them over. His name was Eric Davies.
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Karrier
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Hi........I was a Saturday van boy at Merthyr depot in the late 60s. Made many good friends including Lyn Jones and remeber so many names of workmates, including supervisors Bill Hardwicke, Paul Mason, ? Earwaker from the Rhondda,Keith Morris, plus drivers and van boys, namely Eddie, big John, Alan Jones, Malcolm, John Firth, Alan Bird,Roy Flye, Phillip Chennels,Dai Selway and ' Shirley '......Also remember some of the vehicles used including a Karrier Bantam (740 NTG).... Bedford (968 LTX) and two Commer walkthroughs (FYL 648C & CLL 550H)) .....I worked routes around Merthyr town, plus Ebbw Vale......Saturday morning we would all meet up in a cafe near the Goat Mill Road and remember my driver buying me cheese on toast and a frothy coffee for breakfast...... A couple of goes on the pinball machine and we'd all leave together and head in different directions on our ' runs '......... A full days work and then queue outside the depot at 4.30 to unload and pay in........Really great days and fantastic tips at Christmas.......Hope you enjoyed my memories...
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alanjones123
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hi alan jones here ive just read your comments on our corona days alan earwaker was the supervisors name and shirley was my lorry boy john williams we did rhymney tredegar and ebbw vale who is this anyway
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Gazdon
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I joined Corona in '78 Lyn Jones became my manager there not long after and worked together for many years under Britvic when they bought the business. Under current TUPE legislation my contract is ongoing as Selecta took on the vending side in 2011. Nothing beats the good old days though. Some good laughs.
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whereiswill2000
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Remember having this with a 10p mix while we watched Tiswas
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popman
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my dad john ross worked for corona soft drinks does anyone remember him
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norfolknman
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So many people have ond memories of Corona, and i have never understood why Britvic discontinued them, does anyone know? I seem to remember going to our VG shop with the empties, did it go up from 5p to 10p or am i imagining that? I'm sure they used to be 60-65p a bottle. I can still smell the Dandelion and Burdock, still see the devils horns you could make with Cherryade, and still get p***ed off if Mother wanted Cream soda instead! I would be in my element if they did revive thee brand, but we all know it would be no artificial flavours and colours, and no piggin sugar!
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Digger
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I us to Drive long distance for them in the 70s with John spencer & Bob Bob moon & Andy Tate ,Peter Watson & Peter Stone were on the forktrucks.
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Parlidge
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I worked for Corona for 15 years starting as a salesman in 1968 and finishing as the manger of Barnstaple in 1979. A great company to work for. Sad to see it go, many thousands worked for the company, and a lot started as van boys and stayed through to retirement, it was like a family. Britvic should revive the brand!
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fagin
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rj
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I was based at the Tamworth Plant, for a number of years, it was a major production factory, for many of the soft drink flavours and squashes, initially it also housed a separate door to door "corona man" depot, consisting of about 20 rounds covering a wide area, in the late seventies these rounds were converted to Mobile Retail Operators, each one becoming a business, initially taken over by existing driver salesman, who were now running their own business, they became customers of Corona Soft Drinks.
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creynolds
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hello,
Although not based @ Tamworth, I was a supervisor of the door to door sales team @ Tyseley.. Just before the opening, our management team went to visit the future of Soft Drinks Production....at the time it was both huge and amazing !!! My brother Robert Reynolds was one of the first door to door salesmen operating from Tamworth Plant. One of our supervisors Ray Froggett also went to start the door to door salesmen....hope this helps Colin...
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Ajred
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When we were kids in the sixties there was a large building site near us where we would play. The builders would just throw away their empty Corona bottles and we would spend hours searching for them so we could take them to the Corona lorry for a 3d refund. I think a bottle of Corona cost about 1/6d so 6 empties would result in a bottle. My mum would rarely buy Corona as it did not last long enough!
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InGen
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I currently work at what used to be the Tamworth, Staffordshire, depot for Corona Soft Drinks. I'm not sure if it was a manufacturing plant for the brand or just a storage and distribution warehouse (Which is it's current function). Does anyone know any history of its days as Corona?
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creynolds
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Hello,
I worked as a rounds supervisor @ Tyseley B.ham
We that is the Management Team had a opening visit to the Tamworth facility...the main part of the plant was to manufacture all Corona Soft Drinks plus others belonging to the Beecham Group. Within the facility it also had a office for the door to door / retail sales people
One of our supervisor Ray Froggett then went to Tamworth to organize / manage the new facility...also my brother Robert Reynolds was also in the first door to door sales team possibly about 1968 /70
Tamworth manufacturing unit then made all local depots that made on the premises the soft drinks redundant, but the sales continued for a few more years before the giant supermakets took a grip to stop virtually all door to door sales all over the UK
Hope this helps....Colin
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