Mr Whippy

[shelliw]

Does anyone know who invented Mr Whippy Ice Cream?

[whiskygalore]

err.. Mr Whippy?

[mikewith]

Mr Whippy apparantly started in Birmingham in the late 1950s, according to a glancing reference on this page, that shows you aren't the only person with an interest in the history of mobile ice-cream vendors... amazing stuff: http://www.ice-cream.org/mobiling/history.htm They're looking for info for a book on the subject...
The ice cream cone was first seen in New York in 1896, inventor Italo Marchiony earning a US Patent in 1903. Though it was independently arrived at by concessionaires at the World Fair in St Louis the following year... including Ernest A. Hamwi, who founded the Missouri Cone Company, later known as the Western Cone Company. Though, given that lots of people obviously have too much time on their hands, there are those who dispute this!

[ChrisPBacon]

Some folks say it was Margaret Thatcher.

[bimsey]

It had to be Mrs Whippy who else.....

[123everton]

Thatcher worked in the laboratory of the factory that made it, her job was to establish how much air you could pump into the mixture before it collapses if you find the firm you'll find the inventor, good hunting Sherlock.