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Can you identify this van?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 11:19 am
by Thunder Child
Hi,
I work at English Heritage and have a colleague that's working to digitise a collection of aerial photographs from a company called Aerofilms. Amongst the aerial photographs there are also a few shots taken from the ground. I've attached below an image from the collection showing an Aerofilms van publicising the company's activities. My question is, can anyone identify the manufacturer of the van?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- al_air-train_b5794.jpg (44.64 KiB) Viewed 1807 times
Re: Can you identify this van?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:48 pm
by JPB
How big is the image? I ask because if it's a large one, you could embed it using the "IMG" tags - that can be seen above the pane when you're composing your post - instead of attaching it and that way, we'd have something bigger to work from than that thumbnail.
Unless of course you have one that shows the plate, but I'm guessing that you thought of that already.
Re: Can you identify this van?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:04 pm
by zipgun
The word "Bush " crops up again.. you're in like a shot !
Re: Can you identify this van?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:40 pm
by jimmyybob
1930's Bedford 12cwt VYC
Re: Can you identify this van?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:21 pm
by zipgun
Re: Can you identify this van?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:54 pm
by JPB
Nice work, Jimmyybob. I guess this means that thae thumbnails are OK for people with feckin' mahoosive monitors
or decent eyesight.
Re: Can you identify this van?
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 7:52 am
by Thunder Child
Thanks very much for all the replies. I knew that this was the place to come. The team at work will be really pleased.
Thanks especially to Jimmyybob for the speedy identification. I thought I'd start off with the additional challenge of a tiny image.
Also thanks to JPB on the uploading advice. I'll embed the image in future.
Zach
Re: Can you identify this van?
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 10:16 am
by JPB
Thunder Child wrote:.....I'll embed the image in future.
Zach
This is a good thing, not so much from the POV of the whole image size thing but because it suggests that you may be unable to resist coming here again. Welcome to the world's best classic motoring publication-related discussion facility and haste ye back.
Re: Can you identify this van?
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:25 pm
by jimmyybob
Hmmmm both pictures are the same size when im looking at them.? probably about 3.5 inches square in physical appearance.
Re: Can you identify this van?
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 11:39 am
by Thunder Child
I will indeed be back. I've been a reader of the magazine for a fair while but this is the first time I've used the forum.
I've got a Mini 1275GT laying on its roof in my garage and I'm helping a friend with the restoration of a Bedford CA and Morris Minor so I'll have plenty of questions to ask.
Thanks again,
Zach
