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I have an idea for you, why not make a history documentary about HM Prison vans? Since we rarely see them how they used to look like in the past as prisoners are mostly transported in an actual police van / bus, except we see the one in BBC Porridge saying HM Prison Slade.

Suction units were emptied and cleaned at the hospital in preparation for perhaps the next call, so twenty years of service.... that never happened.

I worked for wadham stringer early 90s I was in th crash repair shop Nextdoor was the ambulance shop Remember seeing New V8 freight rover Chassis cab's lined up waiting for conversion There were manual V8 with air rear suspension Thought even back then id love one of those But juicy things but sounded lovely

A modern digital world Like this narrating

Royal mail hasn't taught anyone how to drive them Most are dented

In our part of the UK, nearly all the Vauxhall RM vans have been got rid of now, in favour of Peugeots. Mainly the Peugeot Expert, but quite a few of the Partners and some of the Boxers (to do the parcel deliveries). Some Mercedes Benz Sprinter vans still in good use, Fiat Doblos.. It's usually DAF trucks that are used to cart the mail between sorting offices. On a larger scale between the major cities in the UK Mercedes Benz and DAF trucks were constants in the Royal Mail fleet but just a few years ago they invested in 29 IVECO trucks which run on biofuel a bit like the McDonald's wagons running on their own oil that's used to cook their chips in.😜

Well the crak is red is on the way out, the latest ones are white with yellow livery, they look terrible, there 2 just been delivered to our sorting office

I've worked for Royal mail 43 years most of my time driving the artics... This film did not show one... So incomplete regarding vehicles from Royal mail

Visit Royal Mail Garston in Liverpool. There is a collection of over 150 model vehicles, ships and a plane on public display

Great video, thank you for shining light on us Royal Mail fleet mechanics. A job that often gets overseen 👍🏻

Good to see two of my still photographs appearing in this video.

Invokes trust??? You been under a rock this last few months??? 🤣😂

I have always been a fan of Jaguar cars, so I would be interested in any of their models, particularly the Jaguar XF. Love the videos and please keep up the good work.😀

epic, could you do one of these with an LDV van?

A lot of ex royal mail vans are broken up and recycled by Charles Trent in Poole

We used to buy them out of Measham commercial auction

Another annoying A.I. narrator.

I worked on a Post Office site in Islington and Morris LD vans were the most common at that time

As a retired postman driver no mention of the Leyland Terrier /Leyland Boxer/ Leyland Roadtrain / Bedford TK or TM or the Ford Cago .

All sold off in 2015 by Vincent sorry "Vince" Cable and the Liberal Undemocrats for £1.34 Billion at a loss to the tax payer of several billion pounds. Come 2024, now being purchased in a £5 billion deal led by Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský who has kindly agreed to retain the name and protect Royal Mail pensions, how kind of him. Well done Vince, yet again another low grade, third class, politician who has done this country proud!

I once worked in a place they filled up the vans. Security is super tight. Large gates and search points. Actually better security than prisons

These days known as Royal Fail with their sidekicks Parcelfarce.

There are VERY "saucy" videos of UK cabs out there...

Also failed to mention that I've never seen a royal mail van without a single body panel without a dent or scratch on it. Same as amazon delivery vans. They all get driven by pent up teenagers i guess! Drive it like you stole it!

Just remember children that a cashless society means you have no more rights or freedoms!

The mail vans still have the royal cypher EIIR, when will they be updated with one for Charlie? I suggest it should be C3PO. Anyone agree?

My Dad is a lifelong member of the RAC, i'm with the AA

Spotlight on the CA - really, never saw one, what about the 50s, 60s & 70s, all we got was a quick drive by of a J and EA and no mention of the backbone of the fleet - the Morris 1000, not good enough!!!!!

Also worth a mention is that in some rural areas Royal Mail used to operate Mail buses, vans fitted with additional seating would be used to help those in areas with little to no busses get around

My Dad was a proud Postman for 33 years, he drove a Ford Escort followed by a Vauxhall Combo.

Wish I could buy the mail van my Dad drove.

The Royal Mail has been sold down the river ...........private firms have been allowed to take all their work , Post Offices closed down all over the country, another national institution we should be proud of . Can’t imagine France doing that to La Poste , or the Swiss selling off their system...........The Uk is on the slide ...........Where is our pride ?

All their vehicles are pink now, the Royal Mail don't have the money to keep them updated and as in most red vehicles they have faded with age. A good T Cutting would give them another couple of years of their iconic vibrant red, but they obviously can't afford that either.

Electric car are trash

I think you have a fact wrong? The pink paint which wasn't just monochrome in colour was 1st applied during WWII for the SAS and the LRDG? During the war Artist were recruited/enlisted and they suggested or painted desert vehicles in differing shades of pink and probably sand colours because to their artistic eyes the desert is made up of these hues of colour. The British had a special department called the Magic men who some were actual trained Magicians or Illusionist and I think were artist who job was to fool the enemy. They helped make up a complete fictional army to distract the Germans prior to D-Day.

No sane person would buy an ex royal mail van

You forgot to mention how many of these used vans ended up in Malta, from the days of the Morris Minor LCV to as much as the latest Vauxhall Combo....

Bedford CA did not become 'synonymous' with the Royal Mail, which only acquired a few on a trial basis. Also, what was the 'specially-designed' vehicle that you attribute to wartime deliveries?

In Glasgow black cabs were manual, both FX4s/Fairways and Metrocabs. The city is built on 11 hills and there are some very steep streets, the steepest being Gardner Street in Partickm where Albion Motors used to test bus and truck chassis.

the yellow stripes should be added back

When I worked in the public affairs team at The Post Office Corporation, now Royal Mail Limited, we produced a leaflet telling the public that we were proudly switching from moving the bulk of mail from road to railway. This was in the late 1990’s when we had invested something like £300 million in the rail infrastructure. When the first of the 20 million leaflets arrived from the printers, I noticed that somehow managers had not seen their proof reading error and, instead of saying how proud we were to be moving from road to rail, the opposite had been written. I was hastily instructed to tell the printers to pull the leaflets. One of my other roles was to arrange visits for Opinion Formers to our network of Postbuses. I was incredibly lucky and travelled on many of the most remote routes. The service offered a lifeline to rural customers. Now, like our rail network, it no longer exists. For several years, I organised the photoshoot for the Annual Report and Accounts. One year we needed a postman’s bicycle. Unable to locate one in central London, I was forced to buy a brand new from stock bike from Pashley the makers. For a few years afterwards, the bike was used daily to cycle between the various post office buildings and stores in central London. The basket on the front being very useful for holding a briefcase. A great video that brought back happy memories to a retired employee!

The LDV Convoy they had an rpm governor.

No mention of the most popular van the Morris Minor!!

Had an 02 reg TX2 bought in 2005 which covered 524,000 miles until it was scrapped in 2018 but in 2020 I decided to buy another TX2 this one is a 53 reg with much lower milage only 292,000

Excellent video, very interesting, i enjoyed it, keep up the good work

Those scrotes breaking into the van is hilarious 😂😂

3ltr V6 Transit 3.5ltr V8 ldv Good old days.

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I have a SAS action figure 👍