Icecream Vans / Sellers

[wiggy]

does anyone remember the enormous pink mr whippy ice cream vans that used to be parked at the entrance to kirkgate market outside the kirkgate/back new york street doors?they had big plastic cornets on the front and were high at the front,sloping backwards.....what make were they...anyone know?

[Bramley4woods]

wiggy wrote: does anyone remember the enormous pink mr whippy ice cream vans that used to be parked at the entrance to kirkgate market outside the kirkgate/back new york street doors?they had big plastic cornets on the front and were high at the front,sloping backwards.....what make were they...anyone know? The vans would have come from the Walls / Whippy depot at Limewood Approach Seacroft.I worked there unofficially in 1964 with a fellow student during the summer vacation. I can't remember who manufactured the vans exactly but I have a feeling they were built on a Bedford Commercial chassis. They were absolute sods to get started in the morning, whilst oddly the Walls vans, which were diesel were a doddle. As a last resort we would have to tow them round the yard with a Walls van 'till they started.The Whippy vans had a generator in the back driven by a tractor engine that ran on TVO, Tractor Vapourising Oil, (remember that smell of Kerosene ?) once they had been warmed up on petrol. This drove the soft ice cream whipping machine which was made in Italy, otherwise known as the Ooly-Ooly effort because of the unpronouncible name of it's Italian manufacturer.The generator also drove the compressors on the fridges for the lollies and solid ice cream products. The Walls vans on the other hand had "Eutectic" plates for cooling which were hollow metal plates full of an anti - freeze type gel (Like freezer packs) which were deep frozen overnight and could absorb enough heat during the day to keep the products frozen. -Just about, provided it wasn't too hot and you didn't forget to close the lids on the fridges. If your fridge started warming up and you were a long way from base on a Bank Holiday Monday say, your inventory of ice cream could be declared "Duff" when you got back to the depot. This could get you sacked. On the other hand if you came back early this had a big impact on your days earnings.

[wiggy]

Bramley4woods wrote: wiggy wrote: does anyone remember the enormous pink mr whippy ice cream vans that used to be parked at the entrance to kirkgate market outside the kirkgate/back new york street doors?they had big plastic cornets on the front and were high at the front,sloping backwards.....what make were they...anyone know? The vans would have come from the Walls / Whippy depot at Limewood Approach Seacroft.I worked there unofficially in 1964 with a fellow student during the summer vacation. I can't remember who manufactured the vans exactly but I have a feeling they were built on a Bedford Commercial chassis. They were absolute sods to get started in the morning, whilst oddly the Walls vans, which were diesel were a doddle. As a last resort we would have to tow them round the yard with a Walls van 'till they started.The Whippy vans had a generator in the back driven by a tractor engine that ran on TVO, Tractor Vapourising Oil, (remember that smell of Kerosene ?) once they had been warmed up on petrol. This drove the soft ice cream whipping machine which was made in Italy, otherwise known as the Ooly-Ooly effort because of the unpronouncible name of it's Italian manufacturer.The generator also drove the compressors on the fridges for the lollies and solid ice cream products. The Walls vans on the other hand had "Eutectic" plates for cooling which were hollow metal plates full of an anti - freeze type gel (Like freezer packs) which were deep frozen overnight and could absorb enough heat during the day to keep the products frozen. -Just about, provided it wasn't too hot and you didn't forget to close the lids on the fridges. If your fridge started warming up and you were a long way from base on a Bank Holiday Monday say, your inventory of ice cream could be declared "Duff" when you got back to the depot. This could get you sacked. On the other hand if you came back early this had a big impact on your days earnings. yes,i was going to mention the loud noise they made and the smell,cheers for that mate.

[Ollie]

Granellis' used to have a place on Meanwood Rd ...and a blind man (we used to call him 'Tony' Granelli) pushed his two wheeled ice cream cart along Meanwood Rd, up Meanwood St along Oatland Lane and down Oatland Rd and back round to the Depot....penny/tupenny cornets and wafer sandwiches...you could never short change that guy, he would rub ever coin between his finger tips and give you the right change.RegardsFrank

[Troll]

Hi, in the 1960s I remember a old looking fellow on a three wheeled push bike with a box on the front. One wheel at the front and two wheels at the back.I think it was Lyons maid icecream. Not sure if he rang an handbell or just called out to let you know he was there.This was in the Easterly road area, and only on a Sunday.

[LS1]

Was there an ice cream Co. in Leeds once called Lois Pope's. I was speaking to someone about this the other day, and seem to remember them as a youngster in the Market. No one has mentioned them as I can see yet...

[wiggy]

Troll wrote: Hi, in the 1960s I remember a old looking fellow on a three wheeled push bike with a box on the front. One wheel at the front and two wheels at the back.I think it was Lyons maid icecream. Not sure if he rang an handbell or just called out to let you know he was there.This was in the Easterly road area, and only on a Sunday. did he sell those little square blocks in two wafers?? i'm sure i remember him..

[zip55]

Pope's was the pie & pea stall in the market wasn't it?

[chameleon]

Yes, forgottenabout Walls. A boring simple Bing-Bong chime as I remember and a perceptive of a very sterile presentation. square yellow box van and equally regimented, prefabricated (and also yellow!) blocks of ice cream for sandwhichs sold often from the back door of the vans. The problem of keeping everything cold explains the rapid opening and slamming closing of the freezers though!Not the first choice as a rule!

[miggy]

I remember one seller asking me if I wanted any blood on the ice cream, though can't remember his name. Rossi's was big in the 80s in Middleton. There was another from the 70s with a distinctive van. Like an old escort van, ie. normal car at the front, however, the back was twice the size in height of the front. Can't think of his name either..