John Henderson, Biglorryblog's man 'North 'o' the Border' has been following the blogs on ice cream vans and has sent me this picture and says: "Hello Brian, I had to send in these shots from the recent Musselburgh festival parade. S.Luca of Musselburgh are currently celebrating 100 years in business and their fine products are acknowledged as arguably the best ice creams in Scotland. There's always a queue at their high street shop, even in the middle of winter. This Rolls Royce diary product naturally needs a motor of the same name to sell it from and the 20hp model shown has been in the family's ownership for decades.
Now click through here for more on this fascinating waggon--and Rolls Royce's reaction to it....
John goes on: "In the early 1970's I'm sure there was a legal case about this 'commercial' as Rolls Royce were not happy about the conversion, but thankfully XP 3326 still exists and continues to work at fairs and special occasions etc. In the 1960's Wm Leith's juice factory was right across the road from Luca's and to keep up with the neighbours he too converted a Rolls Royce into a 'pop' delivery motor and perhaps the legal action was against him, I can't remember. Leith's works have long gone along with their Roller, I wonder what happened to it? If your ever passing Lucas, mine's is a large chocolate wafer slider with vanilla thanks. Cheers, John...." Great stuff, I'll have a Mivvi!