POST OFFICES ON WHEELS
Five new “ travelling post office ” vans -—four of which have net apparatus for picking up and delivering mailbags from and to the liuesidc while travelling at full speed—have been built at the L.M.S. Railways works at Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, for service on express postal trains. Each van is equipped for the sorting of letters and newspapers eu route, and with an electric water heater and electric oven for the use of the travelling staff. The underframe and bogies are of steel, and the sides, ends, and roofs of the bodies are sheeted outside with steel panelling.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22397, 19 October 1934, Page 17
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99POST OFFICES ON WHEELS Otago Daily Times, Issue 22397, 19 October 1934, Page 17
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