Lewis Electruk was a British marque of milk floats, produced by T H Lewis Ltd, a company which had close ties with Express Dairies, the London-based retail milk company. They made pedestrian controlle
A Lewis Electruk rider pram, registration no SJD 884, operated by the London Co-operative Society, delivering milk in Southend-on-Sea around 1969
A 4-wheeled pedestrian controlled vehicle, registration number RVW 723, operated by A J Brackin & Sons, at Victoria House Corner, Hadleigh, Essex, around 1969
Helecs was a marque of British battery-electric road vehicles, produced initially by the electrical engineers Hindle Smart Co Ltd of Ardwick, Manchester from 1948 onwards. One of their first vehicles
Lewis Electruk
…Ltd, who were based in Southport, Merseyside, to produce 168 vehicles to the same design as the Electruk 10 cwt Rider Pram. These vehicles carry a Helecs Vehicles Ltd chassis plate, but in all other respects were identical to the vehicles made by TH Lewis. They were one of the first companies to provide storage…
A Helecs 10 Rider Pram on display at The Transport Museum, Wythall. These vehicles were officially built by Ross Auto Engineering, but carried chassis plates for Helecs Vehicles Ltd.
Photo by Noel Hindle, one of the directors. The other director, Robert Smart is on the pavement. Robert's son Duncan has identified the driver as Edward Grant, and the chassis as a Helecs Pup, developed for Express Dairies. The vehicle is outside the Hindle Smart factory on New Bank Street, Manchester, and dates from the early 1950s.