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MM015 - Edition 3,000
Royal Mail
The minute we announced the release of the Morris Minor,
we had telephone calls regarding the Royal Mail version - were we
releasing a variant and when was it coming. Well here it is and it also
includes the advertising panels which were fitted to the vehicles in the
early 1960’s. They took many variants of the vehicles over a twenty year
period the last being registered in 1973, over 50,000 units. The book by
Russell Harvey carries a lot of interesting facts on the GPO Mail and
telephone vehicles. Apparently vehicles in Scotland were painted in the
same way but used a Scottish crown instead with no initials beneath it.
This was due to the fact that when Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne
in 1952, Her Majesty was not the second Queen Elizabeth in Scotland and
therefore the crown did not apply north of the border. So, the Queen’s
Crown of Scotland was used and applied to both telephone and mail vans
for use in north of the border.
