⁕ I wonder if your readers can help me. I am restoring a 1950 Nipper Truck milk float, designed and manufactured in Hull.
I am too young (only just) to remember these and it appears this is the last-known survivor. The registration number I believe is a West Sussex one.
I would love to know more and if anyone remembers them. They are only 2m long and are driven from a footplate at the rear. They have no lights fitted, so must have just been for “local” use – perhaps by a dairy farmer. They could travel 8mph flat out from the single-cylinder 500cc motor.
One of your readers may even recognise this machine, named “Billy”. I hope so. I have purchased some 1950s galvanised milk crates, but I am desperate for some old milk bottles. I managed to buy 80 out of an old barn and hope there are other people around who can assist. The float holds 18 crates, so you can imagine I need as many as I can get my hands on.
I live in the East Riding of York-shire, am am on 07932 769 214.
Jonathan Smith