Portsmouth vans and their livery down the decades | Nostalgia

If you wanted a job doing well, get a man, or woman, with a distinctive van.

By Deborah Croker

Published 8th Feb 2022, 19:58 BST

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Then, as now, the key to commerce in Portsmouth was having a van – or a fleet of them. And back then it was certainly easier to find somewhere to park them!

Here we’ve dipped into our archives for a series of pictures featuring vans of one shape or another and bearing some old names you might remember.

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