Corgi VA00418 Ford Anglia Van – London Country

The 307E Anglia based Thames van was announced in June 1961 and continued in production until November 1967, by which time 205,001 had been built. However, the name Thames was dropped in March 1965; the range being marketed thereafter as the Anglia Van. In 1971, fleet number 1439F, by then five years old, was one of four London Transport vans loaned to London Country Bus Services (LCBS). The van was mainly used for driver training, hence the ‘L’ plate, but the LCBS logo shown on the model’s door was a temporary sticker that rarely featured on the company’s genuine ‘core’ fleet support vehicles.