Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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Spotted this earlier and was thinking ................... did the Royal Mail once have a van with wooden wings? If so I'm sure Pommreg will know :wink:[frame]Image[/frame]
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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They tried them but they wooden fit :wink:
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Yes they did. The prototype was made from that small Scottish tree ........ the wee larch !.
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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They only fitted them oakationally
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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I think we are branching away from the subject

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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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Have you just twigged :oops:
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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Yew are all Barking up the wrong tree
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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Wood you be leaf how poplar this shrubject is
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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I wood knot have believed it Les :D

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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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I think this thread needs to be rooted out, it is sapping my sense of humour:)
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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Sure Ebonyeeza Scrooge could yews them if he spruced them up a bit, would be vine.
Further investigations uncovered it was an inside job!!
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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I hop the mods don't get sycamore posts and lop the thread fir growing.

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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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Just realised, this is obviously from a rubber tree.
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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Tried to think of something funny to add but I'm afraid I can't. I'm stumped.
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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They never managed to conker the design problems
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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I think this thread is Treemendous
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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It was obvious from the pic that they intended to put even more wood into a traveller.
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Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

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Come on you guys, it's quite obvious it's an original wing from a Woody
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