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Last updated 26th September 2009
- Our latest
update on postbuses is now available. 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 still 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”.
- “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”.
- 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 19th 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”.
- 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 to bring the story up to
date. 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”.
2010 EVENTS
We are planning to
have vehicle displays at several events next year:
Post Office Vehicle
Gathering at Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre on Sunday 18th
April 2010. Copies of the entry
form are now available from our Archivist, Mark Skillen on 07816
515542 or e-mail mark.skillen@taylorwoodrow.com