VAL based Commercials
There were several VAL's built as commercial vehicles because of the low platform height, notably several pantechnicons.
Clarkes Boxes at Mountsorrel had three bodied by Crawford, Prince & Johnson as palletised delivery trucks.
Catteralls in Blackpool had three built to transport racing pigeons.
Several were bodied from new as horseboxes by Lambourn, Vincents, Smiths & at least one by Marsden.
I am currently, however researching three Marsden bodied pantechnicons operated by Sharnaware from Droylsden who manufactured plastic kitchenware and toys. All were registered in Warrington by Marsden before delivery viz: TED125H, UED108J & YED661K I have black & white photos of two of these, but wonder if anyone can remember the colours of Sharnaware
vehicles.
I am also very keen to acquire further images of VAL commercials if there are any out there.
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