Late 60s Ice Cream Van companies on the South Coast

[Les Bird]

On 26/02/2020 at 10:05, BernardTPM said:

I would imagine in Essex for ice cream Rossi would be the Status Quo.

There were also some small local companies. One, Fella Brothers, springs to mind in Essex. One of their vehicles was a Ford E83W with a coach built body, I'm in the process of creating a 4mm replica. I can't find a photograph so it will be built from memory.

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[PhilJ W]

53 minutes ago, Les Bird said:

There were also some small local companies. One, Fella Brothers, springs to mind in Essex. One of their vehicles was a Ford E83W with a coach built body, I'm in the process of creating a 4mm replica. I can't find a photograph so it will be built from memory.

I remember Fella's, many of their E83W's were ex wartime NAFFI vans.  

[PhilJ W]

[bécasse]

On 26/02/2020 at 19:53, Geep7 said:

My mother mentioned the parlour at St. Leonard's, as she spent most summers down there. I guess this would be the one.

Never mind mum, I have distinct childhood memories of sitting in that parlour looking out at the rain pouring down outside accompanied by my parents and little sister and my uncle, aunt and two cousins. I would have probably been four or five at the time c1950.

[Les Bird]

46 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

I remember Fella's, many of their E83W's were ex wartime NAFFI vans.  

I've seen the pictures like the one shown in Philj W's post but I thought the Fella Brothers' one was different. My memory is vague at the best of times so I may be wrong.

[PhilJ W]

Fords provided E83A tea vans during the Blitz with distinctive bodies that extended only part way over the cab. One or two of these became ice cream vans. I remember these around Hornchurch in the 50's though I can't remember which ice cream vendor operated them.

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[Les Bird]

I had the idea that the Fella Bros. one had a curvier body with a lot of windows but it was a very long time ago. Incidentally, the company still exists.

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

If you are having a sound chip in a Bedford CA ice cream van, don't forget the front bumper rattle/zinging effect, it's my main memory of them, always noticing the (rare) ones that didn't!

 

Mike.

[Les Bird]

2 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

Before we knew they were CA's, my friends and I always called them "Rattly Bumper Bedfords"

 

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[BernardTPM]

Also, if it's Summer, the little bonnet propped open.

[DIW]

On 27/02/2020 at 16:45, Gwiwer said:

We lived briefly in Fareham during the mid-60s.  The regular ice-cream man then was from the local firm of Verrechia.  They traded between Chichester and Fareham and were based I believe in Portsmouth.  

 

There are or have been numerous Verrechia ice-cream businesses including one currently trading from Cambridge which might be the same business relocated.  

 

The vans were cream and orange.  A Google image search for "Verrechia ice cream" will produce a range of images which might prove useful to OP.  

 

On 27/02/2020 at 11:20, Al51 said:

The Ice Cream van brands I remember from the Havant area in the late 60's were Verrecchia and Tonibell. Bedford Dormobiles were commonly used. Are you going to have a sound file that plays the 'music'?

 

Al

As mentioned by the two contributors noted, Verrichia and Tonibell were the vans I remember in Fareham round the streets from the early sixties through to the seventies. Given the OP's stated area of interest, it seems that Verrichia would be the most typical for the area. I had seen also the Walls and Lyons Maid vans, but probably on visits to Southsea or Southampton events. I can't particularly remember whose vans paraded the streets of Gosport, though, nor whose vans entertained the crowds at Lee-on-the-Solent or Stokes Bay.