39-182C BR Mk1 NCV (Ex-BG) Brake Gangwayed BR Blue (Newspapers) M80560 Car-Vehicle-Kit Although modelled on the signal

Although modelled on the signal box at Highley

The Southern built 100 of these vans between 1931 and 1934 to carry fresh meat from the West Country to principle markets in London and the Midlands

The Type 2s influence was commercially widespread with regards to forward control (vertical front) but also socially during the counterculture movement of the 1960s hippie van/wagon inspired paintwork on a Camper still remains just as iconic today

it’s last liverybeing the hugely popular Hot Ice shows

racy and at the same time elegant design

39-182C BR Mk1 NCV (Ex-BG) Brake Gangwayed BR Blue (Newspapers) M80560 Car-Vehicle-Kit Although modelled on the signalThe British Railways Mk1 was the designation given to BRs first standard design of main line coaching stock, and one of its most successful. Built from 1951 until the early 1960s to augment and replace the array of Big Four and earlier pre grouping designs inherited from the LMS, LNER, GWR and SR, BR took the best features from several of these types to produce the new steel bodied design. As a result, the Mk1 was stronger and safer than any of the