Mobile Chip Vans

Amos Hames 2

Amos Hames 2

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Are these still around. Mostly Fish shops these days. One of the best is Lifeboat in Scarborough. Has anyone been to Compos fish and Chips in Holmfirth
 
We have one comes around on a Thursday between 5 and 6pm, it cost £14.50 for fish and chips, which is expensive around here, most takeaways are about £9
 
Oh! What a disappointment - it's wasn't "a hilarious name" ... but it does have the following wording on the side of the driver's cab: "Fish & Chip Saloon". 'Saloon'? That's not the first word I'd associate with a chippy - and - the van isn't an 'eat in' affair, so ....?
 
theatrically_inclined said:
Oh! What a disappointment - it's wasn't "a hilarious name" ... but it does have the following wording on the side of the driver's cab: "Fish & Chip Saloon". 'Saloon'? That's not the first word I'd associate with a chippy - and - the van isn't an 'eat in' affair, so ....?
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Maybe they got confused with the Wild West where it wasn't the fish that got battered regularly. :P
 
As an aside did anyone have mobile shop vans in their area at one time. I remember then with great fondness , they sold everything and you could of course get sweets when the shops were closed , I think Supermarkets or perhaps regulations were their death knell.
 
I remember staying in a house near St Just in Cornwall in the early 70's, it belonged to one of my wife's Aunt and Uncle, it certainly was an experience, overnight they still did mine blasting which shook the house, a nearby lighthouse had a foghorn blaring all night, but the main event which I fond funny was about 10.30pm a mobile butchers arrived and made everyone aware using very loud ice cream van style chimes, the Aunt shot out the door to buy produce from the van, I asked her why does he come so late, it appears he stopped at several local Inns on the way and after the last Inn closed its door he would finish off his round in the tiny hamlet, by then his descension making was impaired and he almost gave the goods away, saving them a fortune.
 
captain clutterbuck said:
As an aside did anyone have mobile shop vans in their area at one time. I remember then with great fondness , they sold everything and you could of course get sweets when the shops were closed , I think Supermarkets or perhaps regulations were their death knell.
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We had one in the mid-to-late-1970s. I only vaguely remember when as I know we we moved in or a bit before 1973. It was nothing like Aunties shop van, just an ordinary Bedford panel van, I guess it had a side door - but I do remember the back doors opening and it almost resembled A-A-Arkwright's overladen ice cream shop van!

The real Auntie's Aladdin Van:
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