Metrovick electric vehicles

Metropolitan-Vickers

A MetroVick 18-22 cwt milkfloat in unrestored condition at The Transport Museum, Wythall.
Trade name	MetroVick
Industry	Commercial Vehicles
Predecessor	G.V. Electric (1934)
Fate	Sold on
Successor	Brush (1945)
Headquarters	Manchester, England
Products	Milk float, electric van
Footnotes / references MetroVick vehicles were classified by their payload, which was measured in hundredweights, and this usage has been retained in the article. A hundredweight is one twentieth of a long ton or 51kg, and is abbreviated to "cwt".

MetroVick electric vehicles were a range of battery electric road vehicles produced by the heavy engineering company Metropolitan-Vickers between 1934 and 1944. The company was renamed Metropolitan-Vickers in 1919, and entered the electric vehicle market in 1934, when they bought up the General Vehicle Company of Birmingham. They inherited the designs for the Gordon range of models, and continued to service and supply parts for the G.V. Electric vehicles. Their main sales seem to have been of light vans and dairy vehicles, in three sizes, which they promoted through a series of exhibitions. During the Second World War, they experienced difficulties in obtaining raw materials, and the number of vehicles that could be built was severely restricted by quotas. Production of the range ceased entirely in 1944, and when hostilities ceased, they sold the electric vehicle business to Brush in 1945.

The vehicles performed well, and three vehicles are known to have survived. Two are in restored condition at Kelham Island Museum and South Yorkshire Transport Museum, while a third is at The Transport Museum, Wythall, where it is awaiting full restoration.