Nicola H

got to love a bit of cardboard aided design

registered in line with year of build but not first registered with DVLA until discharge from service

not ex MoD was it ? ( as their civvie regs if worn are ghost)

exactly that the 'large' none premium market died on it;s arse, but the Insginia and Mondeo are now that size ( as seen by the current Dunnydore being an Insignia) the 'small family car' (escort / astra size) is now the size that the Cav and Sierra was which means the fiesta and Corsa and now doing Astras and Escorts did and the Ka / Viva etc are now doing what the Fiesta and Nova di

that is exactly what IR 35 is about ' contractors' who sit at the same desk for decades in some cases as an integrated and integral part of a business, no ability to sustitute , have to book leave etc etc etc ... but supposedly self emploed or 'company directors' of a company that has one client and one contract ...

definite showman's / circus vibe to those vehicles

despite the name sounding more like it's from the far Orient , they are Spanish https://www.sunsundegui.com/en/presentation/history/

my dear departed dad had a Nautlius 1.7 td as a company care in the mid 90s ( either an LS or a GLS )

demand management for you from Anagram town to London , it;s not unknown for first advance to be only a couple quid more expensive than standard advance , and in fact cheaper if you count the 1st catering offer

best Crouch wagon is the one where the sign writers got it so in a side on view you opened one of the lockers and it read 'ouch Recovery'

looks like a motorbike battery ... commonly used in cheap and dirty emergency start solutions on emergency vehicles rather than second full sized battery

back up 'one shot' start battery ?

3.5 V6 Frontera II response vehicle spec with a fuel card ... and livery that was ambiguous as feck to front and rear ... and a very clearly blue light bar ...

indeed US size plates and the tacked on under the bumper rear fog very strongly suggests import

aren't they foot on hand off ? used to drive Vito Incident support Vehicles for a volunteer emergency services role and they had foot on hand off parking brakes ... the main change there was you had to modify ' the system' to go neutral > handbrake when you came to a stop rather than handbrake >neutral as the system teaches ... that said the thud as you pulled the release lever was something which took getting used to