Lloyd
master brummie
I've had a couple in the past, including one with a 'Gown van' body.
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Commercial vans.
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Unless there were two of them, the Bass lorry is, or was 10 years ago, in Beaulieu motor museum
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Richard Dye
master brummie
That certainly was an idea well before its time!
Time Traveller 66
master brummie
Looks like it's moving whilst standing still . Love the design.
Lloyd
master brummie
Reminiscent of the streamlined vans built by Holland Coachcraft of Govan, Glasgow, for a collar laundry company!
See https://flashbak.com/gorgeous-art-d...t-holland-coachcraft-of-govan-glasgow-439417/
Streamlined indeed! - Those Holland Coachcraft vans look like something out of Flash Gordon!
Here is the exact opposite of streamlining. - A van built to look like an off-licence for the Magee Marshall & Co Brewery of Bolton in Lancashire. They were notable for brewing beer made with water shipped up in tankers all the way from Burton on Trent.
Here is the exact opposite of streamlining. - A van built to look like an off-licence for the Magee Marshall & Co Brewery of Bolton in Lancashire. They were notable for brewing beer made with water shipped up in tankers all the way from Burton on Trent.
Most breweries instead "Burtonised " their own water by adding salts to try to imitate the composition of Burton water. However that cmae a cropper once in the 1990s for M & B at Cape Hill, when the tubes containing the salts were mistakenly filled with a surface active agent (detergent), resulting in no Burtonisation and the complete absence of a head on the beer (though it still tasted not too bad !)