Midland Electric Vehicles

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.