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POMMReg »
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:09 pm
by symington1947
Hi Chris,
If you find this picture it,s the latest ,just waiting for signs,Note lights are fitted as well as rear indicators
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Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 10:26 pm
by beero
Very nice, all you need now is a GPO registration number. 1GPO is for sale... only £30K
Takes me back to when I joined GPO or Post Office Telephones many moons ago.
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:37 pm
by IaininTenbury
Nice J type (sorry Austin 101)and J4 too
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 1:03 pm
by jagnut66
Hi,
Very nice GPO van, I do like to see these as I'm ex BT myself. As was my late father who joined (the GPO) after being demobbed, after his wartime army service in the far east. So he may well have driven vehicles like this during his time as a field engineer, before he was promoted to Senior Tech and based in the office in Reading.
I actually once found myself signing in somewhere he'd once worked, finding his signature in the old signing in book, this was after he'd died, so was quite poignant.
Best wishes,
Mike.
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:26 pm
by POMMReg
Have to do something with the windcreen insert, not used on
803 vans. Just a single piece moulding.
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:05 pm
by IaininTenbury
Surely a D reg van wouldn't be an 803? Even GPO?
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:01 pm
by POMMReg
The van is meant to represent a '63 Engineers 5cwt Utility.
Therefore an 803cc, one of 1621 vehicles the body would have
come from.
Shame the body isn't numbered, then I could put a regn to it!
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:13 pm
by IaininTenbury
Fair enough, was getting puzzled there...
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:01 am
by POMMReg
I'm constantly puzzled.
If POMMReg didn't provide 'constructive criticism' to restorers, it wouldn't be
doing its job.
I feel sorry for enthusiasts who spend thousands on their vehicles, only to be
given duff info by 'experts' who should know better!
Like to know who 'advised' in the restoration of JLW 576D!!
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:20 pm
by 1098
Pommreg boy - what ever happend to UXH 530, OJE 767613 ? Bought years ago by a chap from Bournemouth ??
And what of the XXD ??? Job. painted, and signwritten, Sheffield Wednesday football club ? any leads ?[frame]
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Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:38 pm
by POMMReg
XXD 335 last listed with Lee Coleman.
XXD 472 now XFF 106 owned by a strange man in Manchester ,
believed to be converted to a diesel 4x4 pick up.
UXH 530 fitted with trafficators so built at much the same
time as UXH 143.
What became of UXH 719?
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:08 pm
by 1098
What's goin on here then ? No Yale locks,chrome Mirrors and arms ( same as SLM 454 ) No advert board fixings !
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Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:12 pm
by POMMReg
All perfectly standard
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:58 pm
by 1098
Luvly job. Semaphores fitted tight to the B post ! One wonders when the bracket, to push them further out, so traffic behind got a better view of the driver's intention, was fitted ?
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:48 pm
by POMMReg
Ext bkt introduced either on TUV or UXH batches, will
be noted in my book.
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:21 am
by IaininTenbury
SLM 176 had yale locks, but I assume that was a later fitting from a GPO rebuild at some stage. It had silver painted chassis and a reinforced floor round the drivers seat mounts (heavy postie?) presumably all done in a GPO workshop.
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:52 am
by POMMReg
SLM 965 first production rear dr Yale lock, UXH 114 for fnt
drs.
reinforcing bkt on one of mine too.
SLM 176 would have looked like 688 as shown above.
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:58 am
by IaininTenbury
Well it got restored to how it was in service, than how it was when new. All part of its history.
Re: POMMReg »
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:38 am
by 1098
Reinforcing bracket,sounds interesting. What does it look like ?