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Last updated 10^th May 2008

 

LATEST NEWS

 

• Our latest publication is a reprint of the first book we published back in 1968.  Entitled “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”.