MORRIS MINOR VANS USED BY THE GPO & PO

The General Post Office (GPO) and later the Post Office (PO) were by far the largest fleet user of the Minor van taking delivery of more than 50,000 units. Starting from the autumn of 1953, the GPO took delivery of their first vans, their last being registered as late as 1973. The GPO and PO vans had many special features fitted to them compared to the standard civilian vans, these differences as well as the regional variations are beyond the scope of this article. However, worth noting is that unlike the rest of the commercial range, the GPO Minors never used the 948cc engine and they were still taking delivery of series II split windscreen models until 1958, two years after the series III was introduced.

GPO/PO Minor vans are defined into two groups, the mail vans, these are the ones we will be focusing on, were referred to by their load-space capacity in cubic feet, and in the case