Vending Vehicles
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Carvel, Tom (Thomas Andreas Carvelas), 1906-
label: Collection Creator
content: Carvel Corporation.
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content: Carvel Ice Cream Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1958-1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0488, Series 9
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 9: Vending Vehicles

Includes patent information and sales brochures for Carvel's mobile ice cream vending vehicles, 1958-1961. The patent material consists of inter-office and general correspondence between Tom Carvel, his patent attorney, and the U.S. Patent Office. It includes Tom Carvel's petition for patents and the blueprint drawings for his vending vehicles. One of the sales brochures, "This is a Carvehicle Franchise," lists the customized features of the vending vehicles and the reasons why someone would want to own a Carvehicle franchise. Also included is a trade journal article from the June 1958 issue of Ice Cream Field which discusses the creation of the Carvehicle Corporation, a subsidiary of the Carvel Corporation.