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Last updated 15^th June 2009

2009 EVENTS

We are planning to have vehicle displays at three events in 2009:

Post Office Vehicle Gathering at Amberley Working Museum on Sunday 19^th April 2009. Another similar event is planned for 2010.
Royal Mail Warrington is holding a Royal Mail weekend at the Crewe Heritage Centre on Saturday/Sunday 20^th/21^st June 2009. It will be providing a selection of modern Royal Mail vehicles and our members will be displaying some preserved vehicles and motor-cycles. In addition, the British Postal Museum & Archive’s preserved Travelling Post Office coach is on display at the Centre. The centre is located just north of Crewe station and more details of how to find it can be found at www.therailwayage.co.uk. We will have a sales stand and some preserved vehicles at Crewe on Sunday 21^st June.
There will be a Post Office class at the finish of the 41^st Annual HCVS Trans-Pennine run at The Stray at Harrogate on 2^nd August 2009, as Morris/Morris-Commercial is the featured manufacturer at this event.

To enter a preserved GPO, Post Office, BT or Royal Mail vehicle at either of the above events, please contact our Archivist, Mark Skillen on 07816 515542 or e-mail POVCpreservation@aol.com

Our latest 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 summmarises 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 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”.
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”.
For postbuses, 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 updates, POSTBUSES 1998-2004 and POSTBUSES 1998-2006. Each update is priced at £5. All three (Handbook and two updates plus a current list of vehicles and routes following the service withdrawals of 2006 and 2007) together are priced at £20 from POVC Sales at 124 Shenstone Avenue, Norton, STOURBRIDGE, West Midlands, DY8 3EJ. Please make cheques payable to the “Post Office Vehicle Club”.