Ice Cream Vans (T&F)

The Sodor Ice Cream Factory own at least four special ventilated vans used for transporting ice cream and other related ingredients. On one hot summer's day, the Ice Cream Factory manager arranged for Thomas to deliver ice cream to Norramby as the stall there had ran out of ice cream.

Basis
The ice cream vans are based on London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Diagram 102 12 Ton Ventilated Vans. These vans were owned by the LNER with some later being owned by British Railways.

Lei is also based on this van along with a number of other vans.

Livery
The ice cream vans are painted cream with the Sodor Ice Cream Factory logo on their sides. Their rooftops are painted dark grey.

Appearances
Television Series=

Thomas & Friends

 * Series 8 - Too Hot for Thomas

Learning Segments

 * Series 9 - Cool Down Delivery
 * Series 10 - Where is Henry's Coal?

Trivia

 * Two of the ice cream vans are currently on display at Drayton Manor.
 * The Hornby model of the ice cream van is based on an LNER 8 Ton Ventilated Refrigerator Van rather than the LNER 12 ton Ventilated Van seen in the television series. This was presumably done for the sake of realism, as non-refrigerated vans would be unsuitable for the transportation of ice cream and would likely cause it to melt enroute.

Merchandise

 * Bachmann
 * Hornby
 * TrackMaster