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.
Interesting to see on this last picture/advert, that the box carrier has the initials "ER" and the Kings Crown, which would date it to 1936, as Edward VIII only reigned from Jan to December 1936 before he abdicated.
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
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
Hi, Ian the B30 photo is from a site on Post Office bikes, I took a screen shot of it for my album and the quality was very poor to start with, so may not be able to get a better one.