VA03306 Ford 300E Thames Van - Gates Ford Dealers option-set-071 Finely moulded body with many

Finely moulded body with many separately added  fine details

Although designed by the Great Western Railway

are a shorter model with one 1st class compartment

with the number preserved almost outnumbering those currently in service

VA03306 Ford 300E Thames Van - Gates Ford Dealers option-set-071 Finely moulded body with manyAfter the success of Ford's first European designed monocoque bodyshell, the 1951 Consul Zephyr, the company followed the same route with their next car which was the smaller 100E, arriving in 1953. The following year it sired a van variant, the 300E, which remained in production until 1961. It was initially only offered as a 5cwt payload van, but a subsequent 7cwt version accounted for 57,618 of the 139,267 300Es produced; both offered 66 cubic feet