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I saw a rare vehicle today it was an Electric Milk Float the are getting as rare as rocking horse dropping https://my.bus.photos.fotopic.net/p69270361.html
Hi Les,Hi Old Mohawk, I cannot recall any floats like the one in your photo and it would definately have come from Kingstanding.
I asked the Wythall Museum "Expert" on electric milk floats about this picture, and he replied thus:
"GOP 832 (fleet no. P8) is an August 1946 Graiseley 7/8cwt. One of about 12-15 of the type purchased by BCS.
Its chassis (no. 1058) failed on/around 30/9/50. A new chassis (no. 3468) was fitted under the same body.
It was withdrawn and scrapped December 1952.
Can we get a copy of the photo? Rare view - in fact only decent one of a BCS Graiseley I have seen.
Thanks."
The Graisleys were notorious for breaking chassis frames, which were only steel tubes and doubless rusted from the condensation inside, not helped by the dairy's insistence of overloading them to body capacity rather than maker's working load specifications!It had a very short working life really, many electrics lasted for decades. I like the crates of empties stored on the roof, can just image the result of going up or down a steep incline!!!
Thanks oldMohawk, I've sent you an IM.Thanks to the Wythall Museum for the very interesting details, I'm impressed. They can certainly have a copy of the photo which was only 3" x 2" and I had reduced the file size for upload. I have got a file of size 320kb. I have returned the photo to my brother-in-law but could rescan it next week in higher resolution.