School Dinners

[Morturn]

I don't recall those van but I do recall that some schools cooked diners for other schools without kitchens. They would pack the freshly cooked food each day into large square aluminium insulated containers. Court Farm School, Short Heath, Erdington cooked for other schools.

 

[Radiorails]

Does anyone remember one of these ? A Morrison Electrocar for delivering school meals. I expect they delivered to schools where there were no cooking facilities on site.

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Registered apparently in 1944 and as a fuel shortage during WW2 these vehicles were ideal and suited the short drop-off work that they undertook.