1920 Walker Electric Ice Cream Delivery Truck

[Subdeacon Joe]

1920  Walker Electric Ice Cream Delivery Truck.....On the side of the Truck   "Eat a plate of Ice Cream everyday but be sure it's delicious Carry's  Ice Cream.

 

[Alpo]

I've heard of chocolate ice cream and I've heard of vanilla ice cream, but I ain't never heard of electric ice cream before.

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

14 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I've heard of chocolate ice cream and I've heard of vanilla ice cream, but I ain't never heard of electric ice cream before.

 

Learn something every day, eh?

[Subdeacon Joe]

46 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I've heard of chocolate ice cream and I've heard of vanilla ice cream, but I ain't never heard of electric ice cream before.

 

 

It's shockingly good, very energizing, and hard to resist.  Makes you want to  say, "Ohm my GAWD!" 

[Eyesa Horg]

And no resistance to eating your capacity. Unless you choke. 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Truly reVOLTing too.

[Eyesa Horg]

Pretty positive they had neutral opinion of their product.

[Big Gus, SASS# 66666]

You’ll get a jolt out of it. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

My Grandfather, a man who died long before I was born, left a 1923 Studebaker electric car that several of us cousins found and finally got running.

 

It ran on 14 or 16 glass lead and acid cells and was very nearly silent.  The tires mad some sound and once in awhile you would hear an electric crackle.

 

It didn't have a steering wheel but used a tiller and ratchet system.  It could be moved to either side so both front seats could be the on "the drivers side"

 

There was a rheostat in place of an accelerator and it could be reached fro either side, too.

 

There were no brakes.  When you wanted to stop or slow down you'd use the rheostat to reverse the current.

 

It looked like a phone booth on wheels: the roof was high enough to clear a top hat, there were windows all around, and the front and rear were very small curves so it was easy to see both ends.

 

There were roll up windows in the doors and all the other windows (except the front  and back windshields where the bottom 10 inches opened from the bottom on hinges) were fitted with hinges. 

 

There was a single wiper on the front and back windows, each powered by a separate dry cell battery.

 

The interior was nicely upholstered and had wall papered walls and a padded ceiling.

 

It was grass green with yellow wheel and trim and a lot of black gutta percha for handles and knobs.

 

There had been an electric heater but we never found all the parts for it.

 

The rear end had a luggage rack that was detachable.

 

We drove in a parade one, but I never saw it more than a block or two from Grandma's home any other time.

 

I have no idea what became of it