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1948 BSA Bantam 125 Royal Mail 
Catégorie : Motos, Routière — Origine du modèle : 
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◊ 2022-05-29 17:33 |
![[Image: bikei012045.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/26849/bikei012045.jpg) With more light : ![[Image: bikei012044.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/26849/bikei012044.jpg) ![[Image: bikei012045.1.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/26849/bikei012045.1.jpg) |
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◊ 2022-05-29 21:54 |
JTR 482(?) was Southampton Oct 51 to Jan 52. Can't be JTK (Dorset, July-Oct 56) for film date. -- Last edit: 2022-05-29 22:42:30 |
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◊ 2022-05-29 22:24 |
Post Office Bantam. Try JYR |
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◊ 2022-05-29 22:43 |
... = London, July 48-Oct 49 "allocated in blocks". |
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◊ 2022-05-30 08:54 |
Classic Bike Guide: - December 1948 saw the GPO initially order 50 125cc Bantams complete with hardtail and leg-shields. These machines would ‘do their duty’ until 1971, after some 6000 had been abused on a daily basis travelling the UK’s roads in all weathers. Although it is often mentioned that the telegram service made little profit, figures from 1957 show they employed 1580 messengers, each one averaging around 25 deliveries per day, taking an average time of 15 minutes; one greeting telegram cost five shillings for 12 words, equivalent to a full tank of fuel in the Bantam. Telecommunications was moving on apace and even the increased performance of the D5 Bantam and its 174cc power plant didn’t sway the preference for newer technologies. The all nationalised Post Office arrived in 1969 and after 24 years the collaboration with BSA finally ceased. The Steyr-Puch was phased in over the next decade as the Bantams were retired, and although tests were carried out with alternates from Honda and Garelli, nearly 3000 Puch MV-50s worked UK cities and major towns until 1979. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400920132013 By this time the telegram had lost its importance as the phone took control, faxes followed to strike another blow but the courier market boom during the 1980s allowed Express Post to be launched. The Post Office took on a few of Honda’s CD175 and a couple of dozen GT550 from Kawasaki plus various mopeds for the London work, but the postal relationship with two wheels was over. BSA had enjoyed the best of the telegram while the telegram boy had enjoyed the best of BSA; the 125cc Bantam was and still remains ‘Post Office bike of choice’ for those who rode them. -- Last edit: 2022-05-30 08:55:56 |
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