Loads Worth Fortunes by Morris-Commercial
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LOADS of banknotes and stamps worth thousands of pounds are sometimes carried to Tilbury and Southampton Docks by the vehicles of Thomas de la Rue and Co., Ltd., 110, Bunhill Row, London, E.C.I.
The company has recently acquired a new fleet of five smart Morris-Commercial vehicles, supplied by City of London Garages, Ltd., 44, Worship Street, London, E.C.2.
Four of the vans are Standard 1-tonners, whilst the other is a 3-4-tonner, with a body by Cole of Laindon, Ltd., Laindon, Essex. The bodywork is neatly decorated.
Apart from maintaireng a large business as printers, stationers, lithographers, makers of playing cards and Onoto fountain pens, Thomas de la Rue and Co., Ltd., prints banknotes and stamps, chiefly for abroad. Normally, the Morris-Commercials are used for general deliveries, mainly in the London area, but, on occasions, they are called upon to carry forttmes to the docks for export.