[Iain_Ryan]

I am desperately wanting to buy a traditional window cleaners trolley. Remember you used to see the old window cleaners pushing thes etrolleys with the ladders on top and kit underneath the trolley. Anyone got one or know of availability?? Or any advice on building one?? Im not very practicallly minded so would prefer to but existing trolley, can anyone help??? My email is iainryan1@yahoo.co.uk

Many thanks all. Lets hope for an Indian Summer and a mild winter!!!  Iain.  

[replacement]

No offence, but you have asked the same question on 4 occassions now, if you click on the links below where you have asked alot od people have given that help with either information or links to other sites where this information is. Just click on them to find out more.

Justin


http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Equipment;action=display;num=1093903610;start=0#0

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Equipment;action=display;num=1094890110;start=0#0

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Equipment;action=display;num=1095334295;start=0#0

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Equipment;action=display;num=1096147503;start=0#0

[Iain_Ryan]

I am not after just any any kind of trolley, cart etc nor a wfp system. It is the specific window cleaners trolley of years gone by that I was particularly interested in aquiring this time. Thanks anyway, no offence taken.

Iain

[poleman]

MITE PAY to go down the Antique road BUT never saw one my self AND was they a home made thing.

Andy

[WavieDavie]

It is the specific window cleaners trolley of years gone by that I was particularly interested in aquiring this time.

To be honest Iain, I think the chances of finding one of those is on a par with me taking up ballet and doing the dying swan scene from Swan Lake - just imagine me in a tutu though!

You could contact the Fed to see if they know of one somewhere, but I wouldn't hold your breath. To get one made by a joiner/wheelwright would be fairly expensive, too. Any farms close by who might have an old handcart lying about which you could adapt? Try www.nfu.co.uk How about some country establishments who have old agricultural artefacts cluttering up the entrance way?

If it's just you at present, I think you'll get through your run quicker just by walking, rather than pushing a heavy cart, and talking nicely to customers to let them padlock your ladder in their back garden overnight at the last job, ready to start again the next morning.

Just my thoughts . . .

[Old_Master]

They were obviously all home made out of wooden fruit boxes just like the go karts of those days.

I still see one being used in the Crystal Palace area of South London .
I remember window cleaners having them as a side car to a push bike. I think Stan Ogden in Corrination Street used one!!  

Mostly they had become obsolete by the late 50s early 60s along with trolley buses and horse and carts.

[Iain_Ryan]

Its alright for you to jest, but ive lost my licence and i have over 200 houses still to service, so dont take the p boys.

[WavieDavie]

Iain,

Nowhere can I see anyone jesting. As far as I can see you've been given constructive advice from a few different sources, all of which are valid.

Perhaps you need to ask why you're blaming the world for you losing your licence, maybe you should be looking closer to home. If you've taken that big step of going self-employed, you've just got to deal with whatever comes along. Period.

My final piece of constructive advice is:-
If, in your present predicament, you can't get round your complete run, why not take on a worker with a driver's licence to help you through the farthest flung areas, and then concentrate on the work closest to your base all by yourself? This way, you'll get through the work faster and you can canvass for more work during your free-ed up time. Very soon you'll have enough to make the other guy full-time.

That'll be a fiver, thanks!

PS
Be a pleasant fellow and amend your previous post to include the word "mickey" instead.


Iain_Ryan
Leaded windows?? Help!
« Reply #5 on: 26.09.2004 at 09:39:51 »

My round is growing every day and I have a chap coming to work with me for two days next week to see how it goes.... I guess it will slow me down a bit initially but hopefully he will come up to speed fairly quickly!

Ooops, 'scuse me - great minds, etc.

[L.Doubtfire - The Blade Runner]

Right and oaky Iaan ya`ve lost ya licence,thats why ya need a cart.Go modern,not back to the
50`s and 60`s.Get an aluminium quality trolley out of the catalougs that there are ( not cheap)
and modify to your own needs and wants etc. Done a cetain way they will take a bucket,two
`buckets on a belt` bolted on.Terry clips for poles and from B @ Q `hang it alls` for a smallish
extention ladder and `V` ladder if ya use em`.It could even be modified to be pulled by one of
those electric scooters ( buggies) that elderly people ( like my 87 year old mum who`s crippled
with arthritus ) ride around in at up to 8 m.ph. ( Ya don`t need a driving licence ) Think about it,
there`s more going for ya now than what there was in the 50`s and 60`s regarding transport if
ya`ve no van or car.Hope this might help,who knows,ya might set a trend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Lewis Doubtfire, ( The Blade Runner )

[wrighty]

You might get the nickname Brian Potter

[Old_Master]

Simple answer really that I hinted on in my last post.

Make one!