1956 Austin A35 Van [AV5]

1956 Austin A35 Van [AV5] in Look at Life: Keeping Clean, Documentary, 1963

Class: Cars, Van / MPV — Model origin:

Background vehicle

Author	Message
rjluna2 ◊ 2014-05-13 13:33	Austin A30 Van? Link to "en.wikipedia.org"
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2014-05-13 13:50	It's an A35, painted grille with a chrome surround, A30 was all chrome with no surround.
rjluna2 ◊ 2014-05-13 13:59	No front indicators?
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2014-05-13 14:13	It's still an A35 grille, maybe he's swapped it, if we had a shot of the number plate I could date it accurately. -- Last edit: 2014-05-13 14:13:59
chris40 ◊ 2014-05-13 14:48	Early A35 vans had semaphores, not flashing indicators. BMC probably had some trafficators to use up.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2014-05-13 19:02	chris40 wrote Early A35 vans had semaphores, not flashing indicators. BMC probably had some trafficators to use up. I couldn't find a reference to convince me that that was the case, typical BMC trick, though.
chris40 ◊ 2014-05-13 20:15	At least ten of our 43 A35 vans lack flashers. I thought that was a surprisingly high proportion.