Pepsi cola bottle found in uk

[Jimbob86]

 

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[Jimbob86]

If anyone can help date it I have looked for hours and can’t find this design can find similar but not the same

 

[bowwinkles]

The clear glass embossed label with spiral flutes is rare indeed, if my research is worth a darn I have maybe came to a conclusion that it may be a vintage UK only bottle. Those bottles that were early made in the US with the flutes have painted labels. It is a bit of a mystery.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice find, should clean up well...congrats!

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Tony in SC]

I think it's a UK style. What is on the bottom, can't make out the pic?

 

[against the wind]

Very unique.
Congratulations

 

[Jimbob86]

Hello thanks for the messages I’ve cleaned it up a bit and taken a few more pics it has a sloping bottom!! Don’t know if that was a design or a flaw the bottom of the bottle says R 132 A 57 7.
Bowwinkles thank for info all I could find were the printed ones u had in the USA or if it had the embossed logo it was different and higher up on the bottle with the flutes.
Tony in sc I’ve posted the code an took another pic if u can make it out !!! It is separated how I have posted it if that helps !!
Thanks all for kind messages wish I had stumbled across this site sooner
Anyone have a stab at an age for it

 

[Deep1]

Does the seam go to lip of the crown?
That will help with dating.
Please post pic of crown.
That Pepsi bottle is very different from what we find in the United States. It appears to be what is called a slug plate bottle. Bottle makers would make a mold with a round or oval indentation in it. Then they would have a plate made that is embossed with whatever they wanted to have the bottle imprinted on and inserted into the mold and blow bottles. So the same style bottle could have many different things embossed on it, by just changing the slug plate.

It was done early on but,it was not a common practice for Pepsi or Coca-Cola in the United States. By the early nineteen hundreds they were making bottles and shipping to the local bottlers. Up until the early 70s Coca-Cola and Pepsi was bottled locally. And the bottoms of the bottle would have the bottling location embossed on them.

I remember when I was a little boy watching Coca-Cola being bottled downtown. The whole front of the Coca-Cola Bottling plant was glass, so you could watch it being bottled.

I do not know when Pepsi was introduced to Great Britain. My guess would be in the early part of the 20th century. And your bottle would be one of the earlier ones produced. The reason I say that is because of the slug plate design.

They could have used the slug plate style mold so they could use different alphabets in different countries. So this bottle mold could have simply been used many different countries by simply changing the slug plate.

The marks on the bottom of the bottle are the manufacturers marks, with some research you may be able to find out who made the bottle and when.

Even though I'm a Carolina boy and Pepsi was born in the Carolinas, my soda of choice has always been Coca-Cola, my Mama was from Georgia.

Maybe that's why I was never much interested in Pepsi bottles. And don't have a lot of knowledge of them. So I can't tell you any more than that. But I do believe it is a very early version of a Pepsi bottle for that market.

 

[Jimbob86]

Wow thank you for someone who don’t know much about Pepsi that was a lot of info. The seam does go all the way to the top! You say that it used to be produced locally in the states !so was there slightly different variations on taste depending on where u brought it from? Love the story about watching it being made l! the Coca Cola factory over here looks like the factory in the original robocop not very inviting . Do you have and links or sites that could be helpful in tracing the bottle maker ? I’m new to this so forgive my ignorance
I done a bit of research on Pepsi it was originally marketed as a stomach settler and made in the back of a chemists I think that’s great from such a small beginning to one (if not the biggest) soft drink in the world!
I prefer Coca Cola though or being English a good old lemonade
Thanks again love this website

 

[diggingthe1]

I think they listed the date after the letter. I'm guessing yours would be 1957. Here is a link if you haven't seen it. Nice find!!! Trademarks & Manufacturers: Pepsi-Cola Company.

 

[Jimbob86]

Thank you for that I did see that when I was looking yesterday but wasn’t sure if the same rules applied as it’s a uk bottle!! It’s a mystery all I can find on net is USA bottles! I understand that obviously it’s a USA product so there will be lots more interest there but I thought some one here would have a uk one or posted about some over here but can’t find anything thanks for posting hopefully someone will know

 

[Trezurehunter]

That is a nice looking Pepsi bottle. I also believe that bottle is going to be native to the UK. I worked in the pop and bottle dept. for a large grocery chain back in the 70's (back when people brought their glass bottles back in for a deposit) and I have never seen a Pepsi bottle that looked like that one. Nice find.

 

[Jimbob86]

Thanks trezurehunter been looking on net for last two days can’t find a bottle like it !!

 

[ajaj]

I love the bottle; I’d love collecting soda bottles. You may wish to post in the bottle section...

Bottles & Glass

aj

 

[Tony in SC]

July 1957, that would have been the prerunner of the US swirl bottle. Good find!!

 

[Jimbob86]

Thank aj good idea will do later got a few more to clean up so will do so then