‘It’s frothy man’
Was that a Commer knocker 2 stroke?
Now hang on Rich, that was “Cresta” poor-mans pop, along with other imposters like “Alpine”...
I’m talking “Corona” the original high class door to door delivery service...
I don’t actually know the engine in it Rich, could have been diesel, or petrol, 2 or 4 stroke... and I might be naming it wrong too.
I always thought it to be Commer Karrier, but here’s what it looked like only it was yellow...
(couldn’t find a Corona one though)
and my memory is jumping between the Karrier flatbed we had and then a later (Commer?) sloping front walk-through cab flatbed thingy with a load-bed roof and roller curtains...
We also had Bedford TKs like this, but we only got to drive them at Christmas on the “big” Saturday before Christmas Day. They were mostly used for shop deliveries.
Can you imagine that the Karrier fully loaded had a pop retail value of only £50
It was circa 1970 I suppose, but it took some work to sell a full load door to door.... and that was for £2.50 a day wages, good money in those days. Start at 8:00am finish at 8:00pm.
1s/4d a bottle, 7.5p after 1971... if you had an empty, that was, 6d deposit on a bottle...