1950 BEDFORD PCV VAN FLOAT

Make: BEDFORD
Registration: LNN 158
Year of Manufacture: 1950
Date First Registered: 28/03/1950
Location: PICKERING
Guide Price: NO RESERVE
You can view from: Wednesday 28 January 2026 - Tuesday 3 February 2025

Current V5 present. Paperwork includes buff log book, DVLA correspondence, purchase invoice, and photocopied past V5.

The vendor has provided the model of the vehicle to be a Bedford PCV Van Float. Please confirm upon your own inspection.

The vendor has provided the following:

• Reg No. LNN 158
• No Keys
• I purchased this vehicle in 1997, and it has been in dry storage ever since
• The engine turns over, but we have never spent time trying to see the engine runs
• One - Bedford PCV Ice Cream Van, First registered 28th March 1950 - I have owned the Vehicle since 7 March 1997
• The ice cream van is a model PC Bedford, built in 1949 and registered late March 1950
• The vehicle was supplied as a van to the coach builder (unknown), and the hand built body was built onto the chassis
• My understanding is that the Ministry of Supply controlled the release of new vehicles to trades and professions
• Ice cream vendors were at the bottom of the list during post-war austerity and rationing, and were allowed to purchase a new vehicle as of the end of November 1949
• Horace and Godfrey Scott must have immediately ordered this van when allowed
• This model is a pre-war design, which was made from 1938 to 1952
• Scott's Ices of Redcliffe Street, Sutton-In-Ashfield, operated this vehicle until retirement in 1968, their small factory still exists and is now an office
• A historic trust acquired the vehicle and sold it to me in 1996, and I have dry stored it ever since