Smith Electric Vehicles and general Milk Float tat

[somewhatfoolish]

4 hours ago, beko1987 said:

My dad was a milkman in the early 90's apparently... He crashed the float and had to walk home to ring the dairy as the payphone in our estate wasn't working... 

How do you crash a milk float? Is your dad Michael Crawford in "Some mothers do 'ave them"?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

23 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

How do you crash a milk float? ....

By putting a brick on the accelerator?

[Wilko220]

On 12/18/2012 at 10:02 PM, Wilko220 said:

 

M&M still exists today, having acquired Crompton Electricars, as M&M Group Handling and they still manufacture electric vehicles.

More info on the modern company here: http://www.mmgrouphandling.co.uk/electricars.html

More info on the M&M re-bodies detailed above here: http://www.milkfloats.org.uk/mandm1.html

Ah. 

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2969758

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I’m of an age to remember the last horse floats in the 1970s in north Dublin. Our local milkman wasn’t impressed at having to walk back to where he left the new fangled electric float. His previous horse would dutifully follow him up the road as he worked. 

[LightBulbFun]

Invacar powered Milk float FTW!

(yes I know its more the other way round and that the Haflinger came first but shhhhhhhh)

[bunglebus]

There are currently 13 proper milk floats for sale on eBay. None are a bargain, £20k?!

Actually there is one non-runner at £1200 with no bids...

[fraser.innes.3]

I was a milk boy in 1982. I used to be allowed drive it by Willie the milkman. I once got it up to 40mph down clermison hill in Edinburgh. Funniest moment was when Willie was going round a small roundabout in East Craigs, and rolled it Luckily I wasn't in it!

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[Mrs6C]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Actually there is one non-runner at £1200 with no bids...

That's a good price, with the battery charger included. If the batteries are with it as well,  then it's a bargain.

It's the same model as mine, though four years younger.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I think this should be renamed "The Pat Mustard thread"