'44 coca cola

[Newfie treasure hunter]

A nice old coke I dug earlier this year in one of my main dumps. I don't it is very rare, but whatta ya'll think?

 

[Dogo]

Is there a city on the base? How about a date on the side? can't quite read the numbers.

 

[Newfie treasure hunter]

Is there a city on the base? How about a date on the side? can't quite read the numbers.

The bottom has E-UGB-44

 

[RCO]

The bottom has E-UGB-44

does it have a city on bottom ? ww 2 era if its 44 , there was a lot of US troops in newfoundland maybe some connection a US bottle

 

[Newfie treasure hunter]

does it have a city on bottom ? ww 2 era if its 44 , there was a lot of US troops in newfoundland maybe some connection a US bottle

There is no city on it, not shure if it is even 1944 to be honest, but no idea

 

[CanadianBottles]

Interesting, I think this is a British Coke. UGB was a UK bottle maker. Maybe that's where you guys were getting your Coke bottles from before you joined Canada, or maybe it was left behind by a ship in WWII? What sort of Coke bottles do you typically find from the pre-1949 years?

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

United glass bottle manufacturers.
ROBBYBOBBY64.

 

[RCO]

Interesting, I think this is a British Coke. UGB was a UK bottle maker. Maybe that's where you guys were getting your Coke bottles from before you joined Canada, or maybe it was left behind by a ship in WWII? What sort of Coke bottles do you typically find from the pre-1949 years?

the history of coca cola in Newfoundland is kind of odd , I'm not even sure if it had a bottler in the 40's or who its bottler was when it did have one

recall reading coca cola left newfoundland at some point in the 80's ? and now pepsi is the dominate bottler there .

although when I goggled it , says there is a coca cola bottling co in mount pearl ( st johns area ) so maybe it came back and is available now

 

[Newfie treasure hunter]

Interesting, I think this is a British Coke. UGB was a UK bottle maker. Maybe that's where you guys were getting your Coke bottles from before you joined Canada, or maybe it was left behind by a ship in WWII? What sort of Coke bottles do you typically find from the pre-1949 years?

Usually just like that... never found any circle slugs or anything of that age around here. Mostly just those ones! I agree with the British guess. It was pre- confederation and that is where a lot of out shipments of goods came from.

 

[CanadianBottles]

Usually just like that... never found any circle slugs or anything of that age around here. Mostly just those ones! I agree with the British guess. It was pre- confederation and that is where a lot of out shipments of goods came from.

I was wondering specifically which glass companies were making them. The ones we get here were all (or mostly?) made by Dominion, apart from the occasional US one that ends up around here. Never seen a UK Coke before.