Royal Mail Vans

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As a quick antidote to my problems in the GOM thread have a few old post office van photos I've just found.

 

Post118_5673 by British Postal Museum & Archive, on Flickr

 

Post118_5687 by British Postal Museum & Archive, on Flickr

 

Post118_5683 by British Postal Museum & Archive, on Flickr

 

Post118_5679 by British Postal Museum & Archive, on Flickr

 

Post118_5677 by British Postal Museum & Archive, on Flickr

 

Post118_5019 by British Postal Museum & Archive, on Flickr

 

Post118_391 by British Postal Museum & Archive, on Flickr

 

Post118_180 by British Postal Museum & Archive, on Flickr

 

Post118_5316 by British Postal Museum & Archive, on Flickr

 

[Negative Creep]

Christ that thing is hideous! what is it?

[Formula Autos]

Have some more:

And some for Pog to drool over:

[wuvvum]

Christ that thing is hideous! what is it?

 

Which, the bizarre-looking streamliner parked next to the Handley-Page? I was wondering that too - never seen owt like that before.

[Negative Creep]

Which, the bizarre-looking streamliner parked next to the Handley-Page? I was wondering that too - never seen owt like that before.

 

 

Yeah that one, which also appears to be a left hooker

[catsinthewelder]

Great pics FA

 

I like the old and new photo with the Roadrunner, is that St Pancreas?

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Post118_5382 by British Postal Museum & Archive, on Flickr

 

Post118_80 by British Postal Museum & Archive, on Flickr

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[seth]

And some for Pog to drool over:

 

That's what its all about for me. This things hammering around the local streets and screeching to a halt, over the curb, next to a post box. Oh, several times a day too because the post worked like that then.

 

Have another, on Eigg apparently.

 

[barrett]

Which, the bizarre-looking streamliner parked next to the Handley-Page? I was wondering that too - never seen owt like that before.

 

 

Yeah that one, which also appears to be a left hooker

 

It's based on a Morris 15cwt van and designed by Maurice Lambert in 1935. Not sure what the point of such a flashy futuristic postal van was, probably more of a publicity thing than an actual working van.

And it's not ugly! Nascent (and flawed) aerodynamicism is where it's at, dawg

[trigger]

I can remember them all being LDV's and Mk4 Escort Vans as a nipper.

 

Royal Mail Leyland at Waterloo by Lost-Albion, on Flickr

 

Dorchester High Street by ~Duncan~, on Flickr

[wuvvum]

Which, the bizarre-looking streamliner parked next to the Handley-Page? I was wondering that too - never seen owt like that before.

 

 

Yeah that one, which also appears to be a left hooker

 

It's based on a Morris 15cwt van and designed by Maurice Lambert in 1935. Not sure what the point of such a flashy futuristic postal van was, probably more of a publicity thing than an actual working van.

And it's not ugly! Nascent (and flawed) aerodynamicism is where it's at, dawg

Barrett's encyclopaedic knowledge of the hyper-obscure strikes again.

[RoadworkUK]

Great pics FA

 

I like the old and new photo with the Roadrunner, is that St Pancreas?

 

Looks like Liverpool Street, but I'm probably hilariously wrong. Again.

 

I never imagined that both those generations of vehicle would have worked side by side.

[Justin Case]

this was a post office van for 20 years, and still had all the signage when we pulled it out of the garden it had laid in for 25 years.

then my old man screwed a free paint job and vinyl from Marley Tiles......

 

Sure? [Pedant] It looks a lot like one of the fleet of Trojans that Marley bodied for themselves, and the Kent registration also ties in (their HQ was in Sevenoaks) [/Pedant] In any case, it's a nice original-looking restoration of an unusual van

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this was a post office van for 20 years, and still had all the signage when we pulled it out of the garden it had laid in for 25 years.

then my old man screwed a free paint job and vinyl from Marley Tiles......

 

Sure? [Pedant] It looks a lot like one of the fleet of Trojans that Marley bodied for themselves, and the Kent registration also ties in (their HQ was in Sevenoaks) [/Pedant] In any case, it's a nice original-looking restoration of an unusual van

 

yes one of 12 marley fleet motors, only 2 left now

[catsinthewelder]

Isn't it a bit unusual for big fleets like the GPO to buy secondhand?

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Isn't it a bit unusual for big fleets like the GPO to buy secondhand?

 

the old guy (aged 94) who sold it to my fatha said it was used for postal deliveries, he bought it from the village postmaster when post office provided a new van. i dont know if it was an offical post van, or just used and signwritten by the postmaster to deliver to the loacl farms etc., but the signage looked authentic. its been in one of the classic mags about 5 years ago, and the ' how it was found' photos are in the article. At the time of the mag feature we thought it was the only survivor, but since then another 2 have appeared. my fatha was releived to sell it on, as its horrible to drive, hot, slow and noisy.

[GrumpyCat]

Great pics FA

 

I like the old and new photo with the Roadrunner, is that St Pancreas?

 

Looks like Liverpool Street, but I'm probably hilariously wrong. Again.

 

I never imagined that both those generations of vehicle would have worked side by side.

 

[anorak]Definitely, St Pancras.[/anorak]

 

Great pictures.

[Jon]

Here's a pic of a load of Daf LFs at York - it's probable that I drove them all before leaving there in 2007:

 

 

Note the height indicator in the top right of the image. Much grofflage! It didn't even show the right height either

[chaseracer]

This thread is incomplete without...

 

 

[Torsten2001]

or this hunny!

[Justin Case]

Isn't it a bit unusual for big fleets like the GPO to buy secondhand?

 

the old guy (aged 94) who sold it to my fatha said it was used for postal deliveries, he bought it from the village postmaster when post office provided a new van. i dont know if it was an offical post van, or just used and signwritten by the postmaster to deliver to the loacl farms etc., but the signage looked authentic. its been in one of the classic mags about 5 years ago, and the ' how it was found' photos are in the article. At the time of the mag feature we thought it was the only survivor, but since then another 2 have appeared. my fatha was releived to sell it on, as its horrible to drive, hot, slow and noisy.

 

Thanks, yet more fascinating trivia rom the depths of Autoshite Here as a bonus is a mobile post office, now preserved:

 

[wackywacerwill]

 

 

 

[RedSparrow]

or this hunny!

 

OMG!

The blokes who used to empty the litter bins in town used to have them, they pull around but with the help of and electric motor.

I had totally forgotten the existed til I saw that!

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That Ital just reminded me of the one i saw!

 

1983 Morris Ital 440 Royal Mail Van by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1983 Morris Ital 440 Royal Mail Van by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1983 Morris Ital 440 Royal Mail Van by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[Mash]

 

Thanks, yet more fascinating trivia rom the depths of Autoshite Here as a bonus is a mobile post office, now preserved:

 

 

Was this not involved in an accident on a transporter a few years back? I seem to remember reading something about it.

 

Leyland EA is my fave post van, I remember they had them up to about A-reg. I also remember the electric handcarts too. When Beverley town centre was pedestrianised in the early 80s they started using them to deliver to the shops.

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Royal Mail Postbus NAO 201P by bkp550, on Flickr

 

Royal Mail Postbus WFV 985V by bkp550, on Flickr

 

Royal Mail Postbus RTJ 319M by bkp550, on Flickr

 

Royal Mail Postbus RTJ 319M by bkp550, on Flickr

 

Royal Mail Postbus OCD 702M by bkp550, on Flickr

 

Postbus Viewcard for Penrith - Martindale route by bkp550, on Flickr

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Oh dear...

 

[chaseracer]

Better...

 

[stuboy]

and they all got thrashed...