Autoshite cash collection. Contains blagging

[FredTransit]

Was looking for this so I can post it on me website, thought you might  like. 

 

 

click to see it, hope it works......

[DSdriver]

works for me, a bunch of blaggers being followed around by a TV documentary crew.

[FredTransit]

it was Ashes to Ashes!!

 

 

if only it was real.....

[fordperv]

excellent

[FredTransit]

with 'police van'

 

 

 

.....and flat tyres.

[FredTransit]

The beast herself

 

 

 

BTW this is a bullion van, not cash van. No hatches for cash, you just open the doors and load up, then drive off overloaded (she weighs three tons UL). Also the first owner was The Bank of England.....

[Micrashed]

crap shooter - they missed both wheels

[FredTransit]

yeah well it was an improvement on the original idea of blowing both the rears whilst moving. I didn't think dropping 3 ton onto a cast iron brake drum, even at low speed was a good idea.....

[FredTransit]

 

V5 showing the Bank of England as previous keepers

[beko1987]

Wow that's the best v5 I've ever seen!

[Twiggy]

Brilliant !

[FredTransit]

cheers Have to say shes as rare as it gets. There was only two made by the bank, and theres only one reg number gone in 20 either side of ours so its safe to say her sister is no more. Not suprising really, most cash vans were destroyed.

[Micrashed]

I was once told that Securicor used to crush their transit cash vans rather than sell them on when they got to the end of their useful life.

 

Not sure how true that was but I cant ever remember seeing any ex-Securicor vans doing the builders circuit.

[FredTransit]

the few cash vans that survived tended to come from small firms. The only reason this one survived was the previous owner knew the B of E mechanic and managed to buy her after about a year of checks.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

A mate bought an old cash van years ago ,parked it in his unit with a tarpaulin over it. He then had hours of fun calling up people saying 'Quick come to the unit ,I've got a problem !' He did it to me ,when I got there he handed me a length of scaf bar,pulled off the tarp ,fired up his paddy bike and said 'when they come out ,hit em!' All the time his brother was banging on the sides shouting for help.

It was perhaps indicative of his reputation that for a few moments I fell for it. In the interest of total honesty and in no way implying anything ,I should say his name was Scouse and I daren't mention how he spent his Sundays,let's just say Granadas were involved.

[FredTransit]

one time when we had the bullion van out, Armed Police turned up. We were shooting a reconstruction of a wages robbery in St Helen's. Due to lack of communication the Chief Constable of the area didn't pass on the info about the production. A member of the public saw the van and actors but not the camera. Armed response came at 120 mph from Merseyside and said that, if they had seen the 'guns' they would have opened fire without warning

I have seen the police chopper over our storage, wonder what they think??? There's no ident on ours, but we do have a fair few blue lights on the lot...

[twosmoke300]

That's brilliant , norfolknweigh

[simmo]

A bit off topic, ages ago I went for an interview for a job as a mechanic with Securicor they needed a couple of extra fitters because they had replaced their armoured Transits (Mk 2s I think) with a later design.  The crims had worked out a way to bust into the new vans easily and Securicor were getting the old ones back into services ASAP.

[FredTransit]

interesting Simmo. I thought once they were out of service they were gone from the world.

On the subject of security, I reckon my one was made by the bank for that reason. The Ford SVO plate shows only twin batteries and flexi wheel arches. The rest must have been done in house. It was possible to order anti bandit glass and other cash van bits fron Ford, but the bank didn't

[simmo]

interesting Simmo. I thought once they were out of service they were gone from the world.

On the subject of security, I reckon my one was made by the bank for that reason. The Ford SVO plate shows only twin batteries and flexi wheel arches. The rest must have been done in house. It was possible to order anti bandit glass and other cash van bits fron Ford, but the bank didn't

 

Not sure how it worked but they had a couple of old ones on site, interviews in them days were in the workshop, think they were a stop gap while they worked on toughening up the new ones.  From memory the old ones were a dark blue and the new ones were a new livery as well.  The workshop was full of British Rail trucks,.

[FredTransit]

thats getting weirder. Why the BR trucks? Did the company lease vans/trucks out?

[simmo]

thats getting weirder. Why the BR trucks? Did the company lease vans/trucks out?

 

The BR vehicles were an out-sourced contract, Securicor were picking up what they could and I think they were planning to go to a 24/7 operation in the workshop.  Then you could  charge a premium if you did servicing at repairs at night and weekends.

[FredTransit]

ah I get you, couldn't see how cash vans would be leased.

[Taff]

there were rumours that a local scally around here got arrested after he was caught blazing away with an unlicensed shotgun at an old Securicor van that he had bought.

[FredTransit]

thats what gets me about this clip. Why would you get out of a BOMB PROOF van just cos some misgiuded crim waves a pea shooter at you?

[simmo]

Forgot to say how the crims were attacking the vans, matey said that they were attaching an RSJ to a stolen truck tappering the end and then ramming it into the part of the vehicle they had worked out was the weakest. Sounds like it would of made a good task on scrap heap challenge

[FredTransit]

bloody ell. My one's lined with chobham armour. Supposed to be capable stopping up to anti tank rounds. Even the floors lined, so you can drive over a bomb