Ice cream vans are being frozen out by councils clamping down on diesel engines. Families breathe in the chemicals as vans keep their engines running while stationary to power freezers and the ice cream machine. Traditional ice cream vans may become a thing of the past as councils move to rid the roads of polluting vehiclesCamden council, in north London, yesterday announced it will install 'no ice cream trading' signs in 40 streets to crack down on pollution. 'But people don't want a side order of asthma with their ice cream. 'The roaming vans that trade in different streets every day, those will disappear over the next few years.'

Source: Daily Mail April 30, 2019 23:03 UTC