Wanted milk float spares

[Guest Ross]

where oh where can we get a curved windscreen for a Crompton E61 milkfloat preferably in the North West

[Slartibartfast]

Hi mate, welcome to the board. I've posted your question in the Wanted/Offered thread, so you may get an answer there. While you're here why not introduce yourself

[Wingz123]

where oh where can we get a curved windscreen for a Crompton E61 milkfloat preferably in the North West

I shall ask my windscreen guy and come back to you - he has often come up trumps with weird and wonderful things...

 

Come back to you,

 

Cheers,

[sierraman]

Pat Mustard on Craggy Island, just off Galway.

[Supernaut]

Pat Mustard on Craggy Island, just off Galway.

 

You reckon the windscreen survived the bomb going off?

[clayts450]

Pictures of windowless wagon required please....

 

Oh, and welcome aboard

[davehedgehog31]

Have you tried another mass?

 

Also - Welcome! 

[sierraman]

I hear your a racist now Ted?

[martc]

Why not put a brick on the accelerator?

 

Briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick.

 

[Wingz123]

Has this vehicle got a reg?

 

And yes pic would help too please

[Kringle]

You reckon the windscreen survived the bomb going off?

Maybe we could say mass for him?

Alternatively windscreen removal on the move?

[warren t claim]

[DSdriver]

Chatham Historic Dockyard have a collection of no longer active milk floats, not being knowledgeable about such things they all look alike to me, but it might be worth pointing an email or letter in the direction of their "head of vehicle maintenance".

[warren t claim]

Surely big expensive to produce bits like screens were bought in from an existing manufacturer and the float was designed around it? You may find that a screen off a Commer van or BMC J4 is the same?

[colnerov]

 Hi, Try approaching windscreen manufacturers like Pilkingtons they may well still have the former for it or may be able to tell you if they were fitted to any other applications.

 

 Colin

[fordperv]

You are Ernie the fastest milkman in the north west aicmfp

 

[Tayne]

If you still have the old scree, this lot will take a mould from it and make you a new one.

 

http://www.plastics4performance.com

[DSdriver]

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 Hi, Try approaching windscreen manufacturers like Pilkingtons they may well still have the former for it or may be able to tell you if they were fitted to any other applications.

 

 Colin

 The Pilkington works on the Isle of Sheppey has shut down and all the formers are just rotting away around the site.

[Mrs6C]

Wythall Green Transport Museum has over 30 milk floats of various kinds. They seem a friendly bunch there, so would probably be happy to help out with enquiries if they have a similar vehicle:

 

http://www.wythall.org.uk/

 

I seem to remember catching an episode of the American series of Wheeler Dealers a few months back where a windscreen for something rare was cut to shape and size from another windscreen from something not so rare, that had the same basic contours. I imagine there are companies in the UK that could do that if a suitable alternative screen were to be found.

 

The university of Manchester has a Crompton E61 milk float... or is that the one you are trying to repair/restore?

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1eJOfkG2g2UJ:https://www.intelligentcarleasing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/University-Electric-Vehicle-Research-ICL.xlsx+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

[Jams]

Plant glazing specialist will make you one chief.