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Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:31 pm
by capnblack
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]

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:10 pm
by panky
They tried them but they wooden fit :wink:

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:33 pm
by SteveU
Yes they did. The prototype was made from that small Scottish tree ........ the wee larch !.
Sorry about that,
Steve.

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:47 am
by mike.perry
They only fitted them oakationally

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:52 am
by amgrave
I think we are branching away from the subject

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 2:38 am
by irmscher
Have you just twigged :oops:

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 5:17 am
by The vast minority
Yew are all Barking up the wrong tree

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:13 pm
by les
Wood you be leaf how poplar this shrubject is
Regards hazel.

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:21 pm
by amgrave
I wood knot have believed it Les :D

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:38 pm
by BAS587
I think this thread needs to be rooted out, it is sapping my sense of humour:)

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 1:03 pm
by POMMReg
Sure Ebonyeeza Scrooge could yews them if he spruced them up a bit, would be vine.

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 3:12 pm
by les
I hop the mods don't get sycamore posts and lop the thread fir growing.

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 3:28 pm
by panky
Just realised, this is obviously from a rubber tree.

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:36 pm
by M25VAN
Tried to think of something funny to add but I'm afraid I can't. I'm stumped.

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 11:55 pm
by mike.perry
They never managed to conker the design problems

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:59 am
by Rasputin
I think this thread is Treemendous

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 11:04 am
by panky
It was obvious from the pic that they intended to put even more wood into a traveller.

Re: Pre rubber wing (van) wings?

Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 6:12 pm
by capnblack
Come on you guys, it's quite obvious it's an original wing from a Woody