New Battery-electric for Bakers
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ON show at the International Bakers' and Confectioners' Exhibition, at Olympia, from September 29—October 4, will be a new N.C.B. battery-electric mobile shop. Developed by Smith's Electric Vehicles, Ltd., Gateshead-onTyne, the new vehicle has been designed as an inside-service shop, so that it is not liable to purchase tax.
Storage space for over 800 large loaves of bread is available. Extensive confectionery display shelves are also provided, large windows in the body sides enabling the displays to be seen from outside the vehicle.
Trays of bread are loaded through the large door at the rear, through which customers gain access to the interior. Immediately on entering the vehicle, the c2 customer is confronted by a transverse counter on each side of which are the shelves of bread. These are adjustable to take trays up to 2 ft. wide.
The driver-salesman enters the shop through an aperture in the front bulkhead behind the driver's seat. Washing facilities, fluorescent lighting and a Ventaxia extractor fan can be fitted at extra cost above the basic price of £1,100.
An N.C.B. 2-ton self-service shop of a type built for the Express Dairy Co., Ltd., is now on view at the Festival of Britain South Bank Exhibition. It has fluorescent lighting, Formica counters and washing facilities. Vehicles of this kind are to be operated largely on new housing estates. They will carry a full range of dairy products and groceries.