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Image:
10.00" x 7.50"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
15.50" x 13.00"
GPO Foden Framed Print
by Mike Jeffries
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GPO Foden framed print by Mike Jeffries. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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THIS PAINTING IN OILS ON A 18″�24″ CANVAS IS FOR SALE... more
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Artist's 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 w...
About Mike Jeffries
COMMISSION A PAINTING FROM MIKE. It is with great regret that I have to inform you that Mike sadly passed away November 2020 aged 81, but I, (his partner) will keep his shop here going and am happy to reply to any emails you might send to his own email address at mike@transportartist.co.uk. Virtually nobody considered the humble lorry worthy of the subject of a painting until Mike made it so. Years of being at the sharp end of long distance HGV driving has given him an insight and knowledge into the industry that enables Mike to depict lorries as they really were in the past and not the idealized view of the less knowledgeable making him the man to paint an original of your favourite commercial vehicle. He is without a doubt THE lorry...
$123.00
Mike Jeffries
Many thanks Gynt for the feature in your group Greetings and Posters.
Mariusz Kula
Well done, featured in our group Original For Sale - Free Shipping.
Mike Jeffries
Thank you Everett for the feature in your group Wheels that Roll.
Mike Jeffries
Thank you Eric for featuring my work in your group Drawings and Paintings.