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Commercial vans.

Great picture by OldMohawk on Thread for bread vehicles.

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Bread Vehicles

Morris "J" Series. I remember these as Scribbans vans in 1950's. Was my Saturday job for some five years around Tile Cross and Lea Hall. In the 1940's we had had horse drawn bread vans to my gran's house, of the style of #2 above ,belonging to Crown Bakery and Harding Bakery, would often get to...
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Pedrocut said:
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J-types in a display area at LDV's Training Facility at the Drews Lane Plant, a GPO Planner's van, RLB 778 - restored by LDV apprentices, and XMT 899 - a standard van originally owned by the John Lewis Partnership.
The vans are used for promotional purposes these days.

The J-type van : a classic light commercial by Pitcher, Harvey (2002)
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Initial driving lessons were in a "J" Type. A Scribban's Bread van around Tile Cross in around 1958.
 
1974

Sherpa (1974–1982)
Originally developed by British Leyland the model was launched in 1974 under the nameplate Leyland Van. A year later the name of the model was changed to the Leyland Sherpa. The Sherpa would then be branded as a Morris and later a Freight Rover.
e Sherpa soon earned itself a reputation for toughness, no doubt helped by the world-wide exposure it received as the result of its cameo appearance in the 1977 James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me (below), where it displayed tenacious stamina to keep going across inhospitable desert terrain, despite having been torn to shreds by the steel-toothed villain, Jaws.


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devonjim said:
Wasn't there a Gittins's garage on Warwick Rd. at Tyseley opposite the Britannia ? Later became Collier's.
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The one I most remember in the 1960-70's was Gittins garage on the corner of Bow st and Irving street, Horsefair, spent some time there doing repairs to the building
 
mw0njm. said:
1974

Sherpa (1974–1982)
Originally developed by British Leyland the model was launched in 1974 under the nameplate Leyland Van. A year later the name of the model was changed to the Leyland Sherpa. The Sherpa would then be branded as a Morris and later a Freight Rover.
e Sherpa soon earned itself a reputation for toughness, no doubt helped by the world-wide exposure it received as the result of its cameo appearance in the 1977 James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me (below), where it displayed tenacious stamina to keep going across inhospitable desert terrain, despite having been torn to shreds by the steel-toothed villain, Jaws.


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Drove one as a works van loved the sliding doors loads of room.
 
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