In the 1930s the Good Humor ice cream company saw the need to be able to sell ice cream where people spent their time in the good weather—outdoors. Their solution was to send out a fleet of ice cream vending tricycles. They went directly to Schwinn and asked them if they were interested in designing something for them. Schwinn turned them down, but not before directing them to Worksman, a small bicycle manufacturer in New York that was already producing something like that. Worksman was busy producing Good Humor ice cream vending trikes for 40 years. They still manufacture all sorts of recreation and vending bicycles today.
This 1950s ice cream tricycle is one that we restored. As you can see by the old paint, there was a generic brand of ice cream painted on it originally. All of the trike’s components are the original pieces. Everything was stripped, repaired and repainted. The restoration was completed with a custom paint job and new wide whitewall tires.
Produced: 1950s
Dimensions: 100″L x 25″W x 40″H
Manufactured by:
Worksman Cycles
Queens, New York
7 responses so far ↓
1 Mark Novota // Jul 27, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Great Childhood memories… are you selling your restored items and if so what is your asking price on the good humor biccycle?
2 vintagevending // Jul 28, 2009 at 11:35 am
Mark,
At this time we are not selling our restored items. In fact, we no longer own the Good Humor Bicycle, it has gone to a great home.
3 tomc // Mar 9, 2010 at 4:49 pm
im currently restoring a trike similar to yours. any idea how much their worth or were to go to find out?
tomc
4 Thomas // Mar 10, 2010 at 11:44 am
Hey man I just came into posession of almost exactly one of these carts and was wondering if you possibly had any information on them? feel free to e-mail me TJ31324@yahoo.com
5 vintagevending // Mar 17, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Hi Tom,
We sold this awhile ago, so we don’t know the current value for it. You can try ebay or Craig’s List, sometimes items like this pop up.
6 John Wernick // Sep 4, 2010 at 7:41 am
What a blast from the past! This is IDENTICAL to the one I drove in Dixon, Illinois back in 1963. My boss was the daughter of the owner of Coss Dairy and ran a “fleet” of around 12 wagons. I sold the frozen treats for 10-cents, of which I got 2-cents for commission. Once-in-a-while, I did better by selling chunks of the dry ice to my neighborhood buddies! Parts of Dixon are rather hilly, in which case the young vendor would be allowed to drive the “Cadillac”, which was one of their three-speeds! Thanks for keeping these memories alive!
John Wernick, Port Byron, Illinois
7 Osaib Ahmed // Dec 11, 2011 at 6:27 am
I would like to get quote for some good design Tricycles for my food company in kuwait.
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