Brightside & Carbrook Co-op Metro-Vick Milk Float FWB 784

The Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company Limited (Metro-Vick) entered the battery-electric road vehicle market in 1934 after acquiring Birmingham-based G.V. Electric and the manufacturing rights to the Gordon models. The Metro-Vick range became popular with many varied users. World War Two, however, severely limited production which was halted in 1944. A deal was struck the following year with Brush Electrical Engineering to take over the range.

The Brightside & Carbrook Co-operative Society served the Sheffield area and its first electric vehicles were 36 Metro-Vick dairy trucks, including FWB 784 new in 1938.

Preservation
FWB 784 remained active until the early 1970s. Fortunately its owners realised just how rare a survivor it was and donated it to Sheffield enthusiasts, leading to its inclusion in the Sheffield Bus Museum. It came to Wythall in September 1997. One of very few pre-war electrics to survive, it awaits major restoration work.