CA017 Evening Standard


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	CA017 - Edition 2,000
	1:43 Scale
	Evening Standard
	The Bedford CA in the Evening Standard livery is very striking - black, red and silver. The CA was such a popular van, but you’d be surprised how small they actually were. Compared to the modern Transits, it was a very low vehicle. The Evening News Morris Minor was very popular, as many of you sold them through local papers. London has one evening newspaper. There was a time when it had 14 and competition was so ferocious that newspaper sellers fought for their pitches, but one by one the other 13 merged, merged and merged again until only one remained, The Evening Standard. It claims that it is read by everyone who is anyone in London. The Standard was its full name when it first emerged from 5 New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, in the seventh year of the reign of George IV - four pages, price 7d and only one thing in mind, to give Mr Canning, the Prime Minister of the day, a bloody nose.

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