Many Midland Electric vehicles were classified by their payload, which was measured in hundredweights, and this usage has been retained in the article.
Batteries were available from Britannia, D P Kathanode, Exide-Ironclad, or Tudor, and Midland offered a Westinghouse metal-rectifier charger with their vehicles.
The driver had a mechanically operated foot pedal and series/parallel battery switch, providing 10 stages of speed control.
[5] By 1943, Midland Electric were producing five models, which could be fitted with various types of bodywork, including a flat-bed truck for coal deliveries.
[6] Midland showcased a van with open sides and roll-up canvas screens to the Soft Drinks Industry Protection Association in 1946.
Acting as a distributor for Midland, they had previously sold a number of trucks to Lancashire Associated Collieries Ltd, for retail deliveries of coal.
Subsequently, they had bought back two of the vehicles, had stripped them down and rebuilt them with 8-seater rear entrance shooting brake bodywork.
[8] Midland produced a new 10-cwt lightweight design in 1949, which features an all-welded chassis with an integral body frame.
The first is a model TWB tower wagon, registration number HXB 658, built in 1944 and operated by the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham in London.
The second is a B30 30 cwt model, dating from 1956, registration number SJW 599, which was used for retail milk delivery by Midland Counties Dairy.