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Having the privilege to be brought up in the glory that is Ruislip,
electric milk floats were the norm, as we were just down the road from the head office of Express Dairies, in South Ruislip.
Imagine my bewilderment, on going to secondary school, in furthest Ickenham, to find a local farm offered daily milk deliveries from a diesel Transit?
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It occurred to me yesterday that since I can remember, milk floats were always electric so I figured they must have been made at least 25 years ago. I've just looked it up and they began to become mainstream in the 40s*!
I understand they would have had low speed and small ranges but can anyone explain to me why it has taken 60 or more years for us to implement this into mainstream cars when seemingly we could have had electric vehicles in urban environments decades ago?
*electric vehicles apparently have been produced for commercial uses since the 1900s