Corgi VA06625 Ford Transit Mk1 Diesel

The now common epithet ‘white van man’ is popularly acknowledged as being invented by BBC Radio 2’s early morning presenter Sarah Kennedy during the mid-1990s. Vans have been produced in white for many years because it’s cheaper and facilitates the sign writing. However, although not all white vans are Fords, the word Transit has become a metonym for van, and justifiably so as over 6 million have been sold since 1965. Ironically it was only christened Transit at the last minute when Ford UK Chairman Bill Batty saw the word on a German bound pilot-build vehicle and knew he had found the new vehicle’s name.