After yesterday’s Morris Commercial, I thought it would be interesting to look at another Morris that provided sterling service delivering letters and parcels on behalf of the Royal Mail. This Morris Minor van lives at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu in Hampshire where I saw it last year. Another, slightly more obscure, Royal Mail vehicle tomorrow. I’ll do a separate sequence on the Morris Minor story later on as well.
Yesterday I was saying how BL’s light commercials in the early 1980s carried the Morris badge, and I also mentioned to @HubCityLocal the old British ritual of going to the Post Office to buy an annual car tax disc. These two themes are united in this Royal Mail Morris Commercial van. The Morris Commercial was produced between 1949 and 1961, and badged as the J-Type from 1952. Pic: NEC Classic Car Show, 2023.
I found the Italian car show photos! So I took these in November last year, a car show that was already hard at it and I got there towards the end of it. I had actually spent the morning at a truck show, and just thought I'd pop by this one and see if anyone was still there. As you can see from the gaps, they must have had a good turnout earlier in the day.
Still managed to find lots of lovely Italians to show you.