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Last updated 26^th February 2013

There will be no Post Office Vehicle Gathering at the Amberley Museum & Archive this spring. The museum’s new management has decided that it is “unviable” to open the museum for our event. We hope to find an alternative venue for the Vehicle Gathering in 2014. We are grateful to the volunteers at the Connected Earth building at Amberley for their support over the past six years.

There are two confirmed Post Office themed events this year for members and friends of the Club to display their vehicles.

On 13^th/14^th July 2013, the Nene Valley Railway’s TPO Group is having a Rail Mail Weekend when it will be unveiling its 1971 Karrier Mobile Post Office and trailer GGO 926J at its museum at Ferry Meadows station. The Club has been asked to complement the Mobile Post Office with a display of GPO and Post Office vehicles. Camping is available at Wansford if you decide to come for both days (please mark the additional information box if you want to camp). The museum will also accommodate most of the railway’s nine TPO coaches and these will be in use over the weekend using the exchange equipment near Wansford station.

The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre’s TPO Group is holding a Moving Mail Weekend on 10^th/11^th August 2013 and we hope to put on a preserved vehicle display on the Sunday at Quainton Road, to complement displays by other postal history societies such as the BPMA, Railway Philatelic Society and possibly the Letter Box Study Group. You can attend on both Saturday and Sunday if you wish, and there is a camping space available at the station.

We hope to have Club sales stands present on all three days.

More details of these events can be obtained from our Archivist at markskillen@btinternet.com.

Our latest book is entitled PRESERVED VEHICLES of the General Post Office and successors: Sixth edition - 2011, it lists all known surviving vehicles in preservation. Detailing over 1,500 such vans, lorries and two=wheelers in preservation, they are detailed in a 128 page A5 perfect-bound book with a further twenty pages of colour photographs of some of the more interesting such vehicles. Available at £12.00 (including postage and packing) from POVC Sales at 124 Shenstone Avenue, Norton, STOURBRIDGE, West Midlands, DY8 3EJ or from the Club stand at Debden at £10. Please make cheques payable to the “Post Office Vehicle Club” or pay by Paypal (e-mail us on POVehClub@aol.com).
Our biennial Royal Mail listings of its current fleet were published last year based on the fleet in May 2012 – Royal Mail in the Midlands, Royal Mail in South West England, Royal Mail in South East England, Royal Mail in North East England, Royal Mail in Thames Valley, Royal Mail in Scotland & Northern Ireland, Royal Mail in Wales, Royal Mail in North West England, and Royal Mail in London and Anglia. Each costs £7 including postage and packing with the complete set of nine costing £50. From POVC Sales at 124 Shenstone Avenue, Norton, STOURBRIDGE, West Midlands, DY8 3EJ. Please make cheques payable to the “Post Office Vehicle Club”.
POSTBUSES 1998-2009 details all the postbuses supplied since 1998, the current position with the withdrawal of postbus routes and much other information. 60 pages including 29 colour photographs of all the types of 2005-2009 postbuses. Priced at £5 from POVC Sales at 124 Shenstone Avenue, Norton, STOURBRIDGE, West Midlands, DY8 3EJ. Please make cheques payable to the “Post Office Vehicle Club”.
The earlier books on postbuses are also available: British Bus Publishing has published the POSTBUS HANDBOOK. 136 pages with details of vehicles and routes at £12.50. In addition, we have published two earlier updates, POSTBUSES 1998-2004 and POSTBUSES 1998-2006. Each update is priced at £5. All four (Handbook and three updates) together are priced at £22 from POVC Sales at 124 Shenstone Avenue, Norton, STOURBRIDGE, West Midlands, DY8 3EJ. Please make cheques payable to the “Post Office Vehicle Club”.
A recent publication is titled Royal Mail Network. 64 pages in A5 format with 21 colour photographs, it lists and illustrates Royal Mail’s current trunking operation known as Network. Available at £5.00 (including postage and packing) from POVC Sales at 124 Shenstone Avenue, Norton, STOURBRIDGE, West Midlands, DY8 3EJ. Please make cheques payable to the “Post Office Vehicle Club” or pay by Paypal (e-mail us on POVehClub@aol.com).
G.P.O. Vehicles 1946-1969: A Concise Guide, this book now in its third edition summarises Post Office vehicles in the period from the end of the Second World War to the creation of the Post Office Corporation in October 1969. This was the period when GPO vehicles were registered in complete registration series. The book has 148 pages (including 20 pages of contemporary colour photographs) in A5 perfect bound format. Available at £10.00 (including postage and packing) from POVC Sales at 124 Shenstone Avenue, Norton, STOURBRIDGE, West Midlands, DY8 3EJ. Please make cheques payable to the “Post Office Vehicle Club”.
Now available is the reprint of POST OFFICE STORES AND TELEPHONE VEHICLES. The third edition includes an extra eight pages of colour photographs bringing the story up to date to 2005. Available at £9.95 (including postage and packing) from POVC Sales at 124 Shenstone Avenue, Norton, STOURBRIDGE, West Midlands, DY8 3EJ. Please make cheques payable to the “Post Office Vehicle Club” or pay by Paypal (e-mail us on POVehClub@aol.com).
Still available is ROYAL MAIL in the Trucks in Britain series. This hardback book is a photographic history of the mailvan in the United Kingdom from the late 19^th Century through to its publication in 1995. Eighty pages including a colour section. Available at £13.95 (including postage and packing) from POVC Sales at 124 Shenstone Avenue, Norton, STOURBRIDGE, West Midlands, DY8 3EJ. Please make cheques payable to the “Post Office Vehicle Club” or pay by Paypal (e-mail us on POVehClub@aol.com).
To bring the story up to date, we have the MAILVAN HANDBOOK published by British Bus Publishing. 112 pages of photographs of mailvans between 1981 and 2005. Available at £13.25 (including postage and packing) from POVC Sales at 124 Shenstone Avenue, Norton, STOURBRIDGE, West Midlands, DY8 3EJ. Please make cheques payable to the “Post Office Vehicle Club”.
Other publications are available, please e-mail POVehClub@aol.com for our list.

Our current membership offer, £18 for fifteen months to March 2014 (U.K. only), can be found at www.povehclub.org.uk/app.html.