I'll have a 99 with a Flake says Biglorryblog...Meanwhile, here's a PR press release with pun-alert level '5'. According to the blurb from Mercedes "One of
Last year, Whitby Specialist Vehicles creator of errr....world-beating ice-cream vans took delivery of no less than 40 Mercedes Sprinter chassis cabs which it converted into err....world-beating ice cream vans. The Sprinters ranged from 209CDIs to 315CDIs and were supplied to the Crewe-based business by
Whitby Specialist Vehicles employs more than 50 people at its purpose-built factory on the Crewe Gates Industrial Estate, and exports its products to nearly 60 countries. Marketing its vehicles under the Whitby Morrison brand www.whitbymorrison.com, the company makes hand-built ice-cream vans, complete with freezers and soft ice cream machines, as well as converting customers' second-hand chassis and building ice cream trailers, kiosks and tricycles for applications in which vans are not suitable.
While ice cream vans remain the core of the business, the company also produces 'one-off' vehicles for other branches of the catering trade. Recent examples include a mobile cafe bar and a bakery delivery vehicle complete with hydraulic lift! Now click through here for more....
The Sprinters are fitted with special glass fibre bodies and, like luxury cars, each is built to the customer's precise specification and can take up to 600 hours to complete. Prices vary from £20,000 up to a 'cool' £80,000. "Customers rightly see the Sprinter as a quality product," explains Ed. "It's superbly reliable, copes easily with the weight and comes with excellent back-up.The Sprinter is also very comfortable and easy to drive, while the design of the cab is first class; the dash-mounted gearshift lever allows easy access to the rear serving area."
The Mercedes Sprinter boasts an impressive armoury of active and passive safety features including an advanced new version of the remarkable ESP anti-skid system called Adaptive ESP, which dynamically monitors the vehicle's load status---which stops all those 99s becoming 66s presumably....
Hi,
I work for Hocking's Ice Cream in Devon, and we have 2 of these new Sprinters, they are fantastic vehicles. I also drive a Land Rover 110 that Whitby's have converted into an Ice Cream Van - a pic of that is on their website.
Hi. My name is Tigran. I have a dodge sprinter 2008 and I changed it to an Ice Cream Truck. The model is 3500.If I want to install the soft Ice cream maker machine, how much will it be in total?