GPO Foden
by Mike Jeffries
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30.000 x 20.000 x 1.000 inches
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Title
GPO Foden
Artist
Mike Jeffries
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
THIS PAINTING IN OILS ON A 18″�24″ CANVAS IS FOR SALE
The Engineering and Supplies departments of the GPO, respectively the Green Fleet and the Red Fleet, comprised mostly of heavily modified ex-MOD vehicles. Their appearance was archaic even for their time but incredibly were still at work into the mid-sixties putting in a good days work despite their age. Here at a GPO depot an ex-Army Foden DG waits for its next load and in the background a post war AEC Matador one of 29 modified as 4�2 tractor units specially for the GPO is parked.
As a reminder of the earlier days of road haulage these wagons, for that is what they were called, survived until the compulsory plating of commercial vehicles in the mid-sixties but for some unknown reason none have been preserved for posterity in GPO livery which is a great shame considering the size of the fleet.
I wrote a short article in the late nineties about my brief time working for the Green Fleet but incredibly there was little feedback, perhaps I had dreamed it all but the Green and Red Fleets seemed to have been air-brushed from history!
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June 2nd, 2012
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