Hi Woodsy
At an Auckland fair I spotted this Lledo model – a Yorkshire Tea van in a special box. Knowing how Woodsy loves his Yorkshire Tea, I just had to buy it.
The model is a standard 1950 Bedford 30 cwt Van, with Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea on the sides, and Family Tea Merchants Est. 1886 on the doors.
It is cream with black mudguards. The cab interior is black plastic, and clear windows are fitted.
The box is especially nice, and the front flap opens up like a book. This was a style Lledo used for a number of their models.
The box is illustrated with scenes of Yorkshire, and the back of the box even identifies the artist – Mick Ashpool. The bottom of the box carries a copyright date of 2000, and says Made in China.
Given that two vehicles are shown on the box top, I wondered if this was part of a set ? A little digging indeed turned up a companion piece, the 1953 Morris Z Van in Police markings.
This is dark blue, with Police markings on the sides, and North Riding Police Force on the doors in white. The wheel hubs are black plastic.
This has a slightly different box, with a link to the Heartbeat TV series, which was set in Yorkshire in the 1960s. The artwork being the same for both models.
It seems there was also an orange Morris Minor Van and an orange and white Volkswagen Camper Van in similar packaging. Some of these models having different copyright dates on the boxes.
In addition, Lledo produced other Yorkshire Tea models in regular Days Gone packaging. Plenty for the Yorkshire Tea fan to look out for.
Six photos, those of the Yorkshire Tea van are of my model, the Police Van models are from Worthpoint.
Anyone got any tea memorabilia?
Paul Adams from New Zealand
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