A feast of period Pathe Pictures.

A Police J type.

All in a days work, walking pass at least 28 GPO J type vans.

Opening windscreen on the J Type in the background.

What a way to treat a van.

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Four period pictures from Mr MYtH. Featuring a GPO J Type and the GPO TPO Trailer.
Traveling Post Office.

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My thanks to Mike Parry for sending me all these links to J type items on the Pathe site. Do check them all out.

Loss of two J type vans.

I have heard from the MCJTV site that two J type vans have recently been sent to the crusher in Australia. The owner had to move out of rented accommodation rather quickly and advertised them but within the week they were already on their way to the scrap yard. Such a shame, I urge all J owners to e-mail phone or better still drop into all their local scrap yards and pin on their wall a picture of a J type with the words wanted Dead or Alive, reward given to finder.
My progress has been slow, the J van has been in constant use these last few days of light traffic while the schools are still on their holidays. The motor bike will be out next week for sure.

I have gained thanks to the generosity of a fellow J enthusiast the correct mild steel door top for the Morris Minor pick-up I'm slowly building. To fit the frame to the door with the out side handle, inside linkage, window winder you need to fit the items in the right order. Needless to say I fitted and removed the frame four times before I got it right. I can now rehang the door correctly on its hinges. I also need to paint it as you would think they would send me a green one, well they did in a way, under the bright red is GPO green so that's now about 10 donor vehicles that have supplied parts for this Frankenstein pick-up.

J types move with the times!

Goodwood Revival is advertising itself with the aid of the Kenwood van on Facebook.

The Kenwood van won't be the only J there, another invited van will be H.P. 5003 NX.

Watch out for them and no doubt a few others.

Pictures of the 1951 Festival of Britain show.

P.W. in the white shirt, fending off traffic wardens.

1951 RT just parked up and being iconic.

 

A vanderlised (pun intended) J type, a rare Martin Walter mini bus now butchered body work to sell overprice ice creams.

Ex GPO van made into a pick-up then sold on and re-bodied to sell overprice fish and chips to the tourists. £10.50 per portion!!

Must have been two much salt on the chips, to have two ice cream vans on site.

Thanks to G.S. for the above pictures. G.S. has been very busy with his J type recently and has sent more pictures of his project. Check out his blog here. http://myh238.blogspot.com/
Also Tinworm has made contact, seems he had not been watching any J type blogs for a year or so, he has missed out on some fine stuff in that time. It's good news that he is back on his project. Check out his blog to see what his progress is.