Hi everyone Alan said: "I'm talking about ice cream cornets as sold in (eg) Manchester around the 1950s and, in particular, by an ice cream van run by a man/firm? called "Sivori's" As Alan says, this list has been very quiet recently, so here is a ha'penny cornet's worth. I recall from the 1940's in Preston that ice cream sellers used two-wheeled handcarts containing a large metal-lined tub for the ice cream. It was sold either as wafers or cornets. I wonder now how they kept the ice cream cold. Was there ice under the tub (which seems a tad sophisticated for those days) or did they simply predict the likely demand and take sufficient ice cream with them? It was slow work, because the streets were almost always cobbled. Any thoughts? Ron