I remember the electric milk carts too, plus the local "Co-op's" baker's
delivery van was electric powered. The more things change the more they
stay the same.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Fisher" <yellowtr3@yahoo.com>
To: <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 6:39 PM
Subject: [TR] Fw: LBC?
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Frank Fisher <yellowtr3@yahoo.com>
> To:
> jimmuller@rcn.com
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:40:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [TR]
> LBC?
>
>
> all this talk of "new" electric cars gets me thinking to older times.
> when i was a kid of about +/-12 years old i used to get up at 4:30 am and
> walk
> uphill in the rain to the local dairy.
> there i would help load the electric
> delivery cart with hundreds of pints (imperial) of milk.
> the dairy owner and i
> would deliver milk to doorsteps till about 8:30 when i had to jump off and
> head to school. on weekends id complete the full round of deliveries
> finishing
> around 1:00 pm.
> that was about 8 hours of electric cart time. now we where not
> accelerating like the tesler and our top speed was only around 20 mph. but
> we
> put a lot of miles on that cart with a huge weight of milk
> have we really made
> electric car progress?
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