Civic Restaurant Runs Mobile Snack Bar
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VISITORS to Clifton Suspension Bridge and Clifton Downs are now served with refreshments from an attractive mobile buffet which is .
operated under the direction of Mr. A. A. Hitching, cater ing manager to Bristol Civic Restaurant Comminee.. It is a complete catering establish ment in miniature, and the staff of four serves snacks, tea, coffee, ice cream and minerals. The basis of the vehicle is a Tasker 6 ton semi-trailer drawn by a Bedford-Scammell tractor. The buffet is 25 ft. 6 ins. long and 7 ft. 6 ins, wide, and is divided into three parts. The raised forward section above the turntable contains a kitchen 9 ft. long, 7 ft: 6 ins, wide and 6 ft. 6 ins, high, in which are housed two SOgallon water. tanks, Calor gas rings, sinks, a cold-storage cupboard, and a cupboard for the clothes of the staff.
• A snack bar occupies the centre section, which is 9-ft. long and 10-ft. 6-in. high. Its entrance is enclosed by 4-ft. sliding door on the near side, and. the bar is attractively panelled in Australian walnut and Venesta sycamore veneer.
Chromium-plated stools, upholstered in crimson leather, provide seating accommodation at a plate-glass counter, under which are shelves for the display of cakes and other foodstuffs, There is sufficient room for other customers to stand. Illumination is by six wall-panel lights.
At the rear is the "coffee-stall," with counters on each side enclosed by roller shutters. Access to this section can be gained from a sliding door in the rear panel. Equipment includes a Calor-gas water heater and a sink, water being fed by gravity from the main tanks. There are also an ice-cream storage cabinet capable of holding 500 ices, a cash register, and display shelves along the walls. Four roof-lights supply adequate illumination.
Ventilation is by two Flettner rotary extractors in the roof; they are connected to ducts which convey heated.
air away from the gas cookers. To preserve an attractive roof line, the extractors are covered by a novel streamlined dome-shaped cowl, with tin openings at the sides and at the front.
Its pleasing. lines can be seen clearly in the illustration at the top of this page.
Power for lighting is provided by three large-capacity batteries housed at the rear and accessible from the outside through a hinged door.
The vehicle was designedand built under the supervision of Mr. W. Guest, M.I.R.T.E., and. the body is constructed throughout of Noral