The record
Mr Whippy is the best-known soft-serve ice cream brand in Britain, sold from franchised vans since the late 1950s. Where the customers are on the sand, a franchisee needs four-wheel drive, and G461 BJO is a Defender 110 registered in 1990, one of the first Defender-badged vehicles, fitted with a box ice cream body behind its standard cab: light blue above a cream waist, a raised front section over the cab rear with small windows and ice cream / mr whippy lettering and cone graphics, a large serving hatch and menu boards on the nearside, a winch in the front bumper for recovery from soft sand, and black steel wheels on sand tyres. It was photographed serving a beach below a rocky headland in April 2025, still in daily use at 35 years old. Its converter and operator are not recorded.
The registry's model keeps the Defender 110 cab and front and adds the box body, raised front section, serving window, lettering, winch and plates from the photograph.
