Smiths Floats

Co-op Midlands 9002 (AJO 2Y) is a Smiths with the style of bodywork known as Elizabethan. It is seen at the National Agricultural Centre, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire on 3rd August 1995. Photo © by Peter Relf.

Newhaven Dairies (East Sussex) B133 DTY is another Elizabethan Cabac. Photo by Dave Fane.

Q150 KKL was photographed operating for Unigate in Canterbury on 15th March 2003. Photo by Richard Haughey.

Ipswich Co-op's E234D (YRT 771S), a Smiths Cabac 75D, is pictured on Foxhall Road, Ipswich on 5th January 1985, the orange glow of its indicator adding a spot of warmth to a freezing scene. Photo by Stephen Cobb.

Ipswich Co-op also had some much older Smiths/NCB floats rebodied in the 1970s. This is E131D (CPV 287) which was originally built in 1954, pictured on High Street, Ipswich on 2nd August 1986. Photo by Stephen Cobb.

Another rebuilt float is E60D (PV 8576) which dated from 1948. Photo by Stephen Cobb, 27th November 1981.

Although latterly better known for its rear-entrance Cabac designs, Smiths also built floats with conventional side doors. OLP 115L, belonging to Johnson's Dairy of Burgess Hill, West Sussex, is one of these. Photo by Dave Fane.

Another float of the same design is Arla's SBH 767R, seen in Blackpool. Photo by Richard Haughey.

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