Get your cheque books out, JB van for sale.

Auction details,
Charterhouse Auctioneers are pleased to offer this vehicle in their next auction on Sunday 15th June 2014 at the Footman James Bristol Classic Car Show held at the Royal Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet, BA4 6QN.
We are now accepting further entries for this auction, please contact Matthew Whitney at our salerooms.
A 1955 Morris Model J van, rare commercial in barn find condition
£3,000 - 5,000

Very interesting van, this is a JB version and use to be owned by a guy named Tony. Its JB/MR 48582 and is a GPO planners van. What is interesting is this is the youngest JB van known, only a hand full were made after this one. Registered for the road 10th June 1961.

Yet more period pictures.-

Taken from the Facebook page, Save the morris J type van.
Sent in by Les, many thanks mate.

 Is it sad to know, the J van in the above picture is a GPO mail van, you cannot read the number plate but you can see the head and side lamps are mounted on the body and the windscreen rubber on the driver side is slightly thicker meaning an opening windscreen.

Isetta scooter and a JB van with extra long wiper arms.

Thanks Tim in Oz for finding this Buttercup Bread van video. Check out his blog to see the 30 second  advert video.

More nice pictures!

 Cardiff 2007. The first time I've seen this picture, thanks Phil..better late than never.

 Any idea where this is? Looks to be very early 50's, no indicators fitted to the van, shame the registration numbers cannot be read. It must be a very early mini bus.

Weekend rally, Humber Bridge area?

Kare Jorgen Underhaug's van in Norway.

Kare Jorgen Underhaug, said via the Facebook page "save the morris j" that he wanted other j van owners out there to see his finished van. Also all J van owners are welcome to come and visit him as long as they bring their vans with them.
So here it is.

Nice rare L/H/D van, now chugging around an island, but thankfully now linked by a bridge to the main land.

A re-paint for an old friend.

The well known static Cafe sign on the South Island of New Zealand has had a small make over, from orange and grubby brown it's now in a fetching shade of one coat white.

More period pictures, thanks M.P. great stuff as always.

 The first picture of a Milk Float J type on this blog.

Ice cream or burger van for sale.

No starting handle holes in the grill?

E-bay advert states,

"Morris j 1955 ex naafi van more photos to follow any inspection welcome 20 miles approx since restorating no posting no overseas deals mot 12mths tax 12 mtgs".

Here is the September 1955 registered van before restoration started.

Doctor Who- Remembrance of the Daleks.

Its was mentioned in the last blog post about a J van appearing in an unknown episode of Dr Who, well within hours the episode has been tracked down by G.S., thanks mate for shedding light on this small mystery. Does this van still exist? Hard to say, so many vans (old vehicles in general) have lost their original registration number its hard to keep track of them.

 So GJH591 where are you?

Dr Who J type vans.

Up and till now it was thought only two J type vans have been seen in Dr Who, one episode with David Tennant and one in the Dr Who Film of the 1960's with Peter Cushing.
It would appear that another has been used in the past, in an earth bound episode with the Doctor played by Sylvester Mccoy.
Here is a TV screen shot of the van, unknown episode, it would be nice to see the full registration number.

Other news, another J van found, this one in Mumbai, India, looks good and I've tried to make contact with the owner. Since the mention of this blog site in Classic Van and Pick-up the number of hits per day has increased to an average of 130, not bad at all. This has also had the benefit of a few period pictures being e-mailed to us, some of which are new to us. I will share them with you shortly.