Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Purchase Tax in 1950.

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Another snippet from a commercial vehicle magazine tells me that purchase tax went up in July 1950, this forced Morris motors to increase th...
Monday, 24 September 2012

Commercial Motor Mag 7th March 1952.

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The ice-cream dispensing vehicle has been converted from a MorrisCommercial J-type van, the original roof being replaced by one of...
Tuesday, 18 September 2012

The latest on Bugly the van in Australia.

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Bugly has changed hands but Im glad to say his new owners are keeping us all updated with its current restoration. I understand they are ...

The GPO rally 15th September.

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A good turn out of vehicles but few people. Here are a selection of pictures of the J type mail vans that were there and also the Telephone...
Monday, 10 September 2012

Part 3 of the co-editors story.

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Pt3 Oh heck, Where do I start with this one? This epic was originally penned on 12 th Dec 2006, I edited it somewhat an...
Sunday, 2 September 2012

GPO window parts.

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The summer has ended, the nights are drawing in, what a year this has been. Well this year has been a wash out, the wettest for 100 years, I...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012

GPO parts and a rally.

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The recent request for some GPO J van parts has it seems fallen on deaf ears, anyway this may well be due to "its holiday time". ...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012

2nd part of the co-authors story. More to follow..

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Hi All, again, Dave Barker, after collecting the engine from Pateley, spent a load of his spare time stripping everything down and then ...
Friday, 10 August 2012

Further update on the GPO parts required.

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In a previous post, a fellow J type owner who is restoring a GPO spec van asked if I could place a WANTED advert on the blog for some parts ...