When did they actually start to paint vehicles red? This is my old mate Ted (middle) in 1939 as a telegraph boy before the war, and before he signed up as a signaller with the Para's later that year. The bikes are C10's in black and green. Royal Enfield also made a V twin 'GPO' outfit (model 155) which was painted in two shades of green. Ron
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Post Office vehicles were divided into two departments, Postal delivery and Telephones which was mostly engineering but may have included telegram delivery, I'm pretty sure red was in use on postal delivery vans before the war and may even have its roots with the stage coach's of the 19th and 18th century's?. Telephone engineer livery was green pre war but obviously the post war bantams were red.
This is an M20 parcel delivery outfit of the same contract as mine, the paint on the sidecar body is a different colour to the rest of the outfit and I have interpreted it to be gloss red on the box body and matt service colour (KG3)on the bike and chassis.
Rob
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Here is the Royal Enfield GPO outfit. Looks like it might be designed for parcel delivery? But of course this is probably early 30's. Ron
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That's a lovely photo of a late contract WB30 which I haven't seen before...Any chance of mailing me the best possible copy of it to go in my B30 'archive'?...Ian
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That's a lovely photo of a late contract WB30 which I haven't seen before...Any chance of mailing me the best possible copy of it to go in my B30 'archive'?...Ian
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