Here we take a look at some of the smaller vans used by Royal Mail, including the Morris Minor, Minivan, the Cambridge-based ½-ton, Marina and Maestro. They also considered a conversion based on the London Taxi...
The General Post Office (GPO) had long-favoured Morris vans both for Royal Mail and Telephones duties, and this loyalty was maintained throughout the BMC era and right into the early 1970s.
Following a brief dalliance with Bedford, BL products were again purchased for much of the 1980s. Indeed, the Sherpa van remained popular with Royal Mail following the sale of the Freight Rover division in 1987, and its successors - the LDV Pilot and Convoy - can still be seen on postal duties to this very day...
Car-derived vans
Here we take a look at some of the smaller vans used by Royal Mail, including the Morris Minor, Minivan, the Cambridge-based ½-ton, Marina and Maestro. They also considered a conversion based on the London Taxi... |
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Purpose-built vans
In the 1960s, and again from the late 1980s onwards, Britain's streets were awash with BMC>Rover-based Royal Mail vans, such as the LD, the J4 and the Sherpa/LDV Pilot. |
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