We've been sent this by a TV company. It's genuine.... I'm sure they'd be interested in a milk float enthusiast even more than someone who likes cars! Hello I...
Hi all did any one else see panorama last night sundy as they were doing it about water and giving most companys a very hard time they did a lot about...
Thanks Paul. I didn't catch it, but I will try to make arrangements to record the repeat, but it will have to be on old-fashioned VHS. Just to clarify, it is...
I'm still getting used to using Bob's milk float on a daily basis for my work commute and wondered if anyone here could answer some questions? As you know it's...
donreid103 wants to share the following video with you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j252pm94Qso Video Description Making a wrong turn during an unfamiliar...
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donreid103 wants to share the following video with you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Pi36klgUE Video Description Remember a time when the sight of a milk...
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Hi Can anyone tell me where abouts in the Panorama program the milk floats appeared ?. I viewed most of it and couldn't see them. Is the program on every...
Hi Folks I am now going to ramble on about when I was young and used to help my Dad on the milkround when I was a kid. Lots of things I remember. My Dad was a...
Mark Thanks for sharing this - it's great. Would you consider allowing us to add it to the new DeliverMilk.co.uk website? Perhaps we could encourage a few...
Mark,Well remembered I remember helping our local milkman in the early 1960's. Then went on to be a milkman myself for quite a fews years. Will post some more...
... Ramble on, Mark, it's great to hear people's reminiscences. ... My dad owned a dairy, building it up from 8 gallons a day in 1934, to 800 gallons by the...
Hi, I'm planning a project based around a marathon milk-float odyssey. Ideally, we wanted to find a model of float that would have been in use around the late...
Hi Ian, One site to look at http://www.bammot.org.uk/ The Transport Museum, Wythall has a number of electric vehicles [milk floats] for the period in question ...
As an addendum to that last post: the nature of our quest would mean we would be away from a fixed charging point. We would need to be able to plug in a float...
... Perfectly possible, but if using a standard 13A plug, you're (obviously!) restricted to 13A at 230V, or about 3kW. Shouldn't be a problem, but big chargers...
Hi Ian I built my own on board charger using parts bought off ebay for less than £100. More or less all it consists of is a variac ( variable transformer), a ...
Thanks folks, good points. I suddenly saw a Westinghouse charger in one of your photos and it looked rather large and industrial... Ian ... than ... ...
Hi all I have also got on board charging which uses a rebuilt charger ( also westinghouse) into a cool box and a 7kw diesel gennie housed in a fridge like box...
See if you can get hold of a zapi type regen system, we have a t reg w&e 3 wheeler when driver downhill taking foot off acc pedal the regen kicks in, putting ...
hi Had a friend at work who had suggested this idea to me also, though the range is not limitless, and my batteries are at the end of their life. the way I see...
I was driving this float in the dark for the first time last night, and I see that the Shunt Fuse Glows Red when going up steep inclines, Presuming this is not...
looks like it needs replacing with a 325 or 500 Amp fuse. The terminals on the ends of the cables and fixing bolts also need replacing. Loose terminals always...
The terminals on the end of the cables looked ok and are tight, it's just where the fuse mount has failed that it's loose, Unless I have missed something? New...
