Mini at Work

NEWS AT 23RD MARCH 2008.

From 23rd March 2007 to 23rd March 2008 the Navman Tracker fitted to the Minivan has recorded a total mileage of 10.088.4 Miles.

Feel free to browse through our photos below. You can click on any image thumbnail to expand it.
Our main website is at www.matplymouth.co.uk .
This site is mostly for the mini lovers that keep waving to me and Ted, my vanboy. Unfortunately we are working hard and miss some of them, and we get some puzzled looks when delivering to an address close to a mini meet.

This Austin Morris quarter ton Minivan originally had a 998cc engine.
HOD is a Devon registration and the previous keeper hailed from Newton St. Petrock near Torrington, Devon.

It is now one of our fleet of delivery and courier vans, reserved just for me to drive.
Like the rest of the fleet, it is inspected every 6 weeks. Unlike the rest it is serviced every 3000 miles.

We do some very fast response courier work where we have to deliver medical supplies from a stock held in our Plymouth store. The minivan is the fastest response vehicle on the fleet
For example, urgent enteral feed for a baby in Cardiff, The job was called at 2345hrs in Plymouth, feed delivered and signed for at 0215hrs in Cardiff.
Another example, Plymouth to Devizes, 158 miles, 2 hours and 45 mins from collection to signature - in heavy rain.
Top speed xx mph, but has shown on the on-board tracker at a little higher! Usually we travel at 60.

No radio, no heater and wipers are a joke, rear vision awful, submerges in road spray, leaks like a sieve, draughty as hell, crys when confronted with speed humps, goes like a rocket.
Thank you Paul Inch for the 1380cc engine in this otherwise bog-standard van.
Deliveries.
This van works hard for it's living.
The rebuilt van as we bought her.
Bought from mid Devon. Rebuilt by a retired mechanic, but not to a great standard. His work was very good, but had some serious flaws. The brake master cylinder pipes were mixed front and rear. Cooling fan blade was reversed. The engine had obviously been stood for the time of restoration and the cylinders showed the rust marks of rusted and seized piston rings. The engine had to go. In all other respects it was original, and apart from the transplant, still is. 10 x 4 steel wheels, drum brakes, sliding windows etc. No luxuries at all. I have added a temperature gauge but that failed with 500 miles.
 
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