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Last updated 31st December 2011
2012 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Club’s foundation in 1962. We will be having two vehicle gatherings in 2012 to mark our anniversary. Our annual Vehicle Gathering at the Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre will take place on Sunday 15th April 2012 where a selection of preserved GPO, Post Office, Royal Mail and BT vehicles will be exhibited by our members. More details of the events will appear on the Amberley website (http://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk/) and vehicle entry forms are available from our Archivist, Mark Skillen, on 01433-670200.
A second event, specifically to mark our anniversary, is planned for Saturday 15th September 2012, at the British Postal Museum & Archive’s Debden Museum Store when a selection of visiting vehicles will complement the BPMA’s national collection. Further details should be available in February 2012.
- 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 Amberley at £10. 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”.
- “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. 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.
During
2011, the Club assisted Royal Mail and Corgi to produce four authentic 1:43
scale models of Post Office mailvans over the years. They comprise:
1967
Ford Anglia van SMG 887F, 1970 Morris Minor van SLJ 430H, 1963 Austin A35
prototype and 1952 Morris-Commercial J LUU 804.
They
are available direct from Royal Mail by phoning 08457 641 641.