Malcolm any way you can get them to speak english over there?
what ya have there is a Trailer... powered by a lectric motor... and y'all
are so bored your racing them.... what will they think of next... Bar
Stools? or folks swapping out thier jobs in some fancy manner? ya know
like those fellas you got with the tall hats and red suits....
K ( that thing sounded like the Camaro by the way.... only smaller )
----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Pittwood" <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
To: "LSR List" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:31 PM
Subject: Milk Floats
> Jim and list,
>
> The dictionary here says that a float " is a platform on wheels with show
> used in processions", but we knew that any way.
>
> Whilst it is unclear is "why?" the name 'float' was applied in the first
> place. It is being used here in the UK quite a lot and is applied to any
> vehicle or trailer used to carry any types of goods that are flat bedded,
> open back & side design. They carry Milk Bottles, sacks of coal or sacks
> of grain and can be easily unloaded.
>
> In parades we have 'floats' that can be towed by tractors or they are the
> trailers of big rigs. Some floats have vertical perimeter posts and a
roof
> covering (canvas or tarp) to protect the goods below or the people carried
> on the platform.
>
> By the way the frontal area of a Milk Float as raced today is of the order
> of 60 (yes sixty.......) square feet. Makes Nebulus Theorem the proverbial
> needle and these vehicles a barn door. Does anyone want to try running
> with a vertical 71/2 feet by 8 feet piece of plywood .... thats what the
> guys were pushing along with electric motors during this attempt.
>
> Malcolm Pittwood, Derby, England
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