Corgi VA06623 Bazooka Gum Ford Transit

Such is the success of the Ford Transit that its name has almost become the British word for light commercial vehicles. As a model name, or even perhaps a sub brand within Ford, it has outlived all its contemporaries such as the Escort, Cortina or Granada. Often sold as ‘Transit the Backbone of Britain’ (at one point Ford even produced T-shirts with that slogan written vertically down the wearer’s spine), it shows no sign of dying yet. Bazooka Gum was launched just after the WWII and is best known for the character Bazooka Joe who appeared in comic strips enclosed in the packets.