A milk float is a vehicle specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk. Today, milk floats are usually battery electric vehicles (BEV), but they...
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shandydan.: 238 Milk churns were transported to the customer and milk was ladled out into the customer's container. The churn-carrying float became obsolete...
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milkwoman, or milk deliverer. (In contrast, a cowman or milkmaid tends to cows.) The delivery route is a milk route or milk run. Home milk delivery was...
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to convert a milk float into a drag racer, which then achieved a place in the Guinness World Records, for the world's fastest milk float. China is married...
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manufacturer of milk floats based in Harlescott, Shrewsbury. They were particularly well known for their three wheelers. It was one of the oldest milk float manufacturers...
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float or crema de mangga is a Filipino icebox cake dessert made with layers of ladyfingers (broas) or graham crackers, whipped cream, condensed milk,...
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An ice cream float or ice cream soda, also known as an ice cream spider in Australia and New Zealand, is a chilled beverage made by adding ice cream to...
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Electric truck (section Milk float)
utilitarian work. Electric trucks have serviced niche applications like milk floats, pushback tugs and forklifts for over a hundred years, typically using...
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more stable governess cart. Their ultimate development was in the float or milk float, where a dropped axle was used to give a low load bed for easy loading...
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Dairy (redirect from Milk machine)
milk is then delivered direct to customers' homes by a milk float. In the United States, a dairy cow produced about 5,300 pounds (2,400 kg) of milk per...
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carry it on the milk float), Ted takes out the rubbish and sees an object in the sky. As he watches, the object – the brick from the float – slams into his...
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which could be supplied with a large van, standard van, flat truck or milk float body. The welded box-section chassis was fitted with semi-elliptic springs...
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who travels his local milk round (route) using a milk float (often battery powered) during the early hours and delivers milk in 1-pint glass bottles...
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Look up float in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Float may refer to: Lowboy (trailer), called a float in Eastern Canada usage Float (parade) Float (sculpture)...
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confidence." She also recalled that Benning and a friend would "catch the milk float from London to Bletchley at the crack of dawn and would do their shift...
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delivering milk to homes since 1939. Bates Dairy is one of the largest independent dairies in Britain, with over 20 electric milk floats, most of them...
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goods is possible. A milk float is a small battery electric vehicle (BEV), specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk. A new form of delivery...
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tow tractors, and urban delivery vehicles, such as the iconic British milk float. For most of the 20th century, the UK was the world's largest user of...
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publisher stated.) 1991.) 16-page booklet of poems. OCLC 505070831. Under Milk Float. Colchester: The Greyhound Press, 1992. Illustrated by Barry Woodcock...
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business in the 1950s and 60s focused on the milk float, a vehicle designed for the doorstep delivery of milk and other dairy products. As dairies phased...
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the 1998 episode "Speed 3", where Father Dougal drives a booby-trapped milk float that will explode if its speed falls below 4 mph. In The Simpsons episode...
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Morrison-Electricar was a British manufacturer of milk floats and other battery electric road vehicles (BERV). Their first vehicle was built for a bakery...
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Collins had attended a birthday party. He described how an "electric milk float" transports people around their cabins and the various clubs and bars...
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Victor Electrics Ltd was a British manufacturer of milk floats and other battery electric road vehicles. The company was formed in 1923 by Outram's Bakery...
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(electric multiple units) and other electric vehicles including electric milk floats, trolleybuses, elevators, roller coasters, and conveyor systems, as well...
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Harbilt Electrics Trucks was a British manufacturer of milk floats, other battery electric road vehicles and a variety of battery electric vehicles designed...
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manufacturer of battery electric road vehicles, including bread vans and milk floats. The company was formed by Outram's bakery of Southport, who could not...
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Father Derek Beeching (Eamon Morrissey) who mucks in to help with the milk-float crisis in "Speed 3". He is particularly fond of saying mass. Father Beeching...
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of milk floats and other battery electric road vehicles. The company was formed in 1949 by Victor Electrics, another manufacturer of milk floats. In...
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