Moving the Mail: Horses to Horsepower
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"I venture the opinion that no feature of postal or engineering work has undergone such a fundamental change and with such beneficial results to those services …as the method of dealing with the various activities of the Post Office. Motor transport is the agent which has made such changes possible."
Post Office Green Paper number 28, 1936
Moving the Mail examines the move from horses to horsepower in the vehicles used by the Post Office. It is based on new research done for the exhibition at Coventry Transport Museum between August and October 2006. The exhibition has gone on tour to Grampian Transport Museum and Bletchley Park in 2007. You can see the rets of our vehicle collection at our Museum Store on special tours throughout the year.
Buy the book Moving the Mail... By Road
BPMA curator Julian Stray has written a new account of 400 years of postal transport by road, to accompany this exhibition. You can buy Moving the Mail... By Road for just £5.99 (+ P&P) in our Shop.
