The Anonymous Widower

Back To The Future?

Fedex were delivering a parcel nearby and parked their driver parked his van outside.

Fedex Modec Electric Delivery Vehicle

It is totally electric and called a Modec. It would appear that the manufacturer no longer exists.

The reason I used the title was that I can remember the electric Harrods vans that used to trundle all over Central London until about the late 1960s.  They had been built in the 1930s in the basement of the store.  I think I once read that the rolling friction was designed to be so low, that it was possible for one man to push them on his own. I also think there were about sixty of them.

We need a lot more of this type of delivery van in big cities.  London is probably an ideal place, as it is fairly flat, but perhaps San Francisco would be less so.

September 16, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | World | Couriers, London