Post early

[computedshorty]

Royal Mail vans collected your mail from street Post Boxes in your road and delivered the same day locally.

Two old pence per letter, send a letter to mum that ? you wont be home for tea going to the pictures with my pal from work ?.

This little Austin Seven was quite rare, I bought one in later years so simple to work on.

A little later GPO changed their vans to Morris and stayed with them for years.

Sixty new pence now for a letter, that might come in time to tell you not to worry that your daughter might be home three days ago but will be late as going to the pictures.

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Austin 7s Weren't that rare shorty, my mum had one in the early 60s and I still remember her loading it with us kids, no seat belts and then having to crank start it!

[computedshorty]

There were lots of the Austin Vans, I had one, I also had a 1929 Austin Chummy in the fifties.

Worst thing was the cable brakes used to stretch,

and I would fit a device that took up the tension called a " Keep death off the road ".

The law at that time said you must have a light showing while parked in the hours of darkness in a main road. I fitted a light from the battery by crocodile clips then clamped it to the roof gutter, showing a red light to the rear and a white one to the front.

In the morning the battery became flat so I had to crank it to start.