Eye-catching black and whites

[sheffcortinacentre]

8 hours ago, Joey spud said:

Can anyone id the van ?

A50

[lesapandre]

9 hours ago, Joey spud said:

Can anyone id the van ?

Bedford Beagle? Or Maybe a Hillman Husky? Certainly not a Singer Hunter.

Too early to be a Peugeot Boxer.

[lesapandre]

9 hours ago, Joey spud said:

Petrol Ration: The Suez Crisis triggered petrol rationing in the UK from December 1956, rationing was controlled by coupon books, limiting private use but providing some extra for essential workers - lasted until May 1957.

By that point the Austin Sheerline would have been a gas-guzzling anachronism.

[High Jetter]

29 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Bedford Beagle? Or Maybe a Hillman Husky? Certainly not a Singer Hunter.

Too early to be a Peugeot Boxer.

I looked at Husky. Not a Beagle, the low left Lucas brake light suggests something Rootes, or forrein, rather than BL

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

I looked at Husky. Not a Beagle, the low left Lucas brake light suggests something Rootes, or forrein, rather than BL

I was joking. I think it's an Austin or identical Morris Half Ton van - manufactured up to 1973.

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Bedford Beagle? Or Maybe a Hillman Husky? Certainly not a Singer Hunter.

Too early to be a Peugeot Boxer.

Not a HA wrong lights.

[sheffcortinacentre]

9 hours ago, lesapandre said:

I was joking. I think it's an Austin or identical Morris Half Ton van - manufactured up to 1973.

 

That's what I said 

[Remspoor]

[Remspoor]

Mexico

[Remspoor]

Madrid

[lesapandre]

[Skut]

[Joey spud]

Wipers mounted on the roof ?

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

14 minutes ago, Joey spud said:

Wipers mounted on the roof ?

Yes so the driver's windscreen can be opened, hinges at the top.

(Obscure, obsolete G.P.O. requirement, like the Minor Vans with rubber front wings)

[Joey spud]

Did they have a heater fitted ?

[Remspoor]

[DSdriver]

30 minutes ago, Joey spud said:

Did they have a heater fitted ?

Highly unlikely, my '56 Austin A30 had an aftermarket heater fitted, a round thing with two doors (one to direct flow to drivers side and one for passenger) under the dash. My 1952 Citroen 11BL (Big 15) being more luxurious had a hole under the dash that was supposed to connect to a tube linked to the radiator but the tube was missing so all I got was icy drafts on my ankles. I doubt the GPO would be so frivolous as to care for their employees. A legacy that has carried on to the recent post office managers fiasco.

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

38 minutes ago, Joey spud said:

Did they have a heater fitted ?

No.

Heater delete was another G.P.O. requirement, along with front passenger seat delete on Postal Delivery/Collection vans.

(In fairness most van manufactures of the time; the front passenger seat, wipers, heater etc etc were extra cost items.

Even the speedo was an extra cost item with some of the manufactures even tho a legal requirement by then) 

BTW G.P.O. Telephones department had a different specifications to G.P.O. Royal Mail for the same vans

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

I read it as Gilchrist's Land O' Buns first of all.

[D.E]

[sheffcortinacentre]

7 hours ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

Yes so the driver's windscreen can be opened, hinges at the top.

(Obscure, obsolete G.P.O. requirement, like the Minor Vans with rubber front wings)

Rubber wings was used for long, some of the forward control vans had them too.

[lesapandre]

7 hours ago, D.E said:

[Yoss]

19 hours ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

No.

Heater delete was another G.P.O. requirement, along with front passenger seat delete on Postal Delivery/Collection vans.

(In fairness most van manufactures of the time; the front passenger seat, wipers, heater etc etc were extra cost items.

Even the speedo was an extra cost item with some of the manufactures even tho a legal requirement by then) 

BTW G.P.O. Telephones department had a different specifications to G.P.O. Royal Mail for the same vans

We've only just lost our last 08 reg  Combo's with wind up windows and a cassette player and I clearly remember vans not having a stereo at all. I also remember during Covid we had lots of hire vans in as we couldn't share them and all these hire vans had things like air con and touch screens and I felt like I had reached the future. Our vans have always been as basic as possible. 

[Remspoor]

[Tayne]

GLEIMTUNNEL by PETERSHAGEN, on Flickr

[Tayne]

AMERICAN CARS + DIE MAUER by PETERSHAGEN, on Flickr

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BMW by PETERSHAGEN, on Flickr

[Remspoor]

[D.E]

[artdjones]

2 hours ago, D.E said:

'I'm sorry, I could never date a man with an A35.'