I love to see Tony's truck go down my street too. But I have to say, he over-charges. $10 a knife seems steep. But then again, I'd rather pay him than not see him one summer.

Apparently, in Taiwan, garbage collection trucks play ice cream music to tell people it's this time of the week again, as you can't leave your bags on the side of the road!

I love Tony.
His bell was a klaxxon across the neighbourhood, summoning everyone to get out their knives and other sundries.
He still drives out to Toronto on the odd occasion too. I've seen him going through the Annex

There's another guy who drives around Rosemont in a white truck. No music but he rings a bell and makes an announcement.

There are trucks like this in Pointe Claire, too. Ice cream music and bells.

I don't know if it was him or a competitor, but I had a good chef's knife ruined once by one of these mobile sharpening guys with too heavy a hand on the sharpening wheel. Now I do it myself with a stone.

When I first lived in the Plateau in the 1980s, there was a man who rode an old-style French mobylette which converted to use the drive train to run a sharpening wheel. Nifty gadget I've never seen anywhere else.

I would highly recomend Frank's General Grinding the original sound of the bell and westminster chime.
Been doing the Town of Mount Royal ever since I was knee high and and now his sons continued the tradtion. If there's anyone that can do sharpening espeacially knives or garden tools that's the the man including hand mowers.

I agree Frank's general grinding been doing the town since 1958 and now his sons continued the business and he plays the Westminster Chime got my knives sharpened by him for years great people good job fine edge.