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    A milk float is a vehicle specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk. Today, milk floats are usually battery electric vehicles (BEV), but they...
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    milkwoman, or milk deliverer. (In contrast, a cowman or milkmaid tends to cows.) The delivery route is a milk route or milk run. Home milk delivery was...
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  • Look up float in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Float may refer to: Lowboy (trailer), called a float in Eastern Canada usage Float (parade) Float (sculpture)...
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    utilitarian work. Electric trucks have serviced niche applications like milk floats, pushback tugs and forklifts for over a hundred years, typically using...
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    churn-carrying float became obsolete as bottled milk became common, with milkmen using trolleys, vans and carts, but the name "float" survives today...
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    Float' orcrema de mangga is a Filipino icebox cake dessert made with layers of ladyfingers (broas) or graham crackers, whipped cream, condensed milk,...
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    to convert a milk float into a drag racer, which then achieved a place in the Guinness World Records, for the world's fastest milk float. China is married...
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  • which could be supplied with a large van, standard van, flat truck or milk float body. The welded box-section chassis was fitted with semi-elliptic springs...
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    An ice cream float or ice cream soda, also known as an ice cream spider in Australia and New Zealand, is a chilled beverage that consists of ice cream...
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    who travels his local milk round (route) using a milk float (often battery powered) during the early hours and delivers milk in 1-pint glass bottles...
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    more stable governess cart. Their ultimate development was in the float or milk float, where a dropped axle was used to give a low load bed for easy loading...
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  • carry it on the milk float), Ted takes out the rubbish and sees an object in the sky. As he watches, the object – the brick from the float – slams into his...
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    manufacturer of milk floats based in Harlescott, Shrewsbury. They were particularly well known for their three wheelers. It was one of the oldest milk float manufacturers...
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    Dairy (redirect from Milk machine)
    milk is then delivered direct to customers' homes by a milk float. In the United States, a dairy cow produced about 5,300 pounds (2,400 kg) of milk per...
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    same result. A milk float is a specialised version of an electric platform truck specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk, common in the United...
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    stated, 1991. no ISBN.) 16-page booklet of poems. OCLC 505070831. Under Milk Float. Colchester: The Greyhound Press, 1992. Illustrated by Barry Woodcock...
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    goods is possible. A milk float is a small battery electric vehicle (BEV), specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk. A new form of delivery...
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    tow tractors, and urban delivery vehicles, such as the iconic British milk float. For most of the 20th century, the UK was the world's largest user of...
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  • delivering milk to homes since 1939. Bates Dairy is one of the largest independent dairies in Britain. Bates has over twenty electric milk floats, most of...
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  • confidence." She also recalled that Benning and a friend would "catch the milk float from London to Bletchley at the crack of dawn and would do their shift...
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  • version of Bob the Builder and also on Dream Street, voicing Half-Pint the milk float. In 2006, Emma began to voice Perfect Peter in the TV adaptation of Francesca...
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    Pilk (redirect from Pepsi and Milk)
    and milk. The ice cream float was invented by Robert M. Green in 1874. Doodh soda, a drink made by mixing lemon or lime-flavored soda with milk, is popular...
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  • 56 seconds. Watson, Albert (10 May 1975). "Off the buses and on to the milk float". Newcastle Evening Chronicle. p. 5. ISSN 0960-3573. Retrieved 5 April...
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    Track Records (the Who's label), recalls Moon ordering him to purchase a milk float to store in the garage at Tara. In 1973 Kim, convinced that neither she...
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    manufacturer of battery electric road vehicles, including bread vans and milk floats. The company was formed by Outram's bakery of Southport, who could not...
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  • Father Derek Beeching (Eamon Morrissey) who mucks in to help with the milk-float crisis in "Speed 3". He is particularly fond of saying mass. Father Beeching...
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    made petrol and diesel buses and electrically powered trolleybuses and milk floats. Commercial Vehicles became a separate department of Sunbeam in 1931...
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  • directed by Steve Box, about cat burglars that steal milk, and their plans to pull off 'the great milk float robbery'; and an untitled Nick Park project (which...
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    were known by other names. For example, the electric milk float is more a trolley than a float, as is the brewer's 'dray' seen at horse shows. Cart Horsecars...
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    Dairy Crest electric milk float truck...
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