Postmen outside Dornoch Post Office

Date Added: 26 September 2010 Year: 1937 Institution Name: dnhhl Cat No: ◀ | 2004_014_001 | ▶ Picture No: 9584

Framed monochrome photograph of three postmen with vans and motorbikes taken outside the old Dornoch Post Office. Acquired when the tourist office in the old post office closed down.

Dimensions: Height 232mm - Width 292mm

2 Comments

I would be grateful if someone could kindly advise the registration numbers of the three GPO vehicles in this photograph. The one on the left looks like DGU 482 that operated for the GPO between April 1937 and May 1945.

Comment left on 21 October 2013 at 20:23 by Christopher Hogan Many thanks for the dates - as far as I can see on the original image here in the Museum the car on the left is, as you say, DGU 482, there is no sign anywhere of the registration number for the motor bikes and the car on the right has the number partially obscured by the postman but is D?? 799. I will amend the date of the above image to 1940 Administrator

Thank you. The right hand van must be DGU 799, a pre-war Morris Minor mailvan with Duple bodywork while the two motor cycles are likely to be DGU 580/1, BSA 4.99 h.p. combinations known to have operated at Dornoch from January 1937 to October 1943. 1940 is a bit too late for the photograph as the vehicles would have white edging and covered headlamps by then - suggest the photograph was taken in 1937 after the four vehicles were delivered to Dornoch.

Comment left on 22 October 2013 at 10:58 by Christopher Hogan Very many thanks for all the additional information about the vans and motor cycles, I will change the date to 1937 Administrator

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