Dad's van: Surrey Property For Sale

Dad's van

The sale of the 1935 Ford used as Lance Corporal Jones’s butcher’s van in “Dad’s Army” A highlight in Bonhams’s 3rd December sale at Mercedes-Benz World Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey will be a van used as Lance Corporal Jones’s butcher’s van in the classic television series, Dad’s Army. Currently part of the Patrick […]

By The Steeple Times◆20 September 2012◆2 minute read

The sale of the 1935 Ford used as Lance Corporal Jones’s butcher’s van in “Dad’s Army”

A highlight in Bonhams’s 3^rd December sale at Mercedes-Benz World Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey will be a van used as Lance Corporal Jones’s butcher’s van in the classic television series, Dad’s Army.

Dad's Army main — The 1935 “Dad’s Army” Ford Box Van

Dad's Army — The cast of “Dad’s Army” and the Jones’s 1935 Ford Box Van

Screen Shot 2012-09-20 at 19.14.23 — Clive Dunn OBE as Lance Corporal Jones in the 1935 Ford Box Van

Currently part of the Patrick Motor Museum collection, this 1935 Ford Box Van featured in some of the most iconic shots in the series and has a guide of £20,000 to £30,000.

Continue the thread

Two stories to keep beside you

From the same Steeple territory

The Empire of Bentley

A Bentley turned into artwork celebrating British history goes to auction A Bentley turned into a piece of artwork celebrating British history by Paul Karslake FRSA comes to auction on the 30th November through Historics at Brooklands at Mercedes-Benz World in Weybridge, Surrey.

From the same Steeple territory

A Grand Grosser

“As good as new” 1965 Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman “dictator car” to be sold at auction in London for a staggering sum A “like new” 1965 Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman saloon is to be sold at auction in December in London. The preserve of dictators (including Saddam Hussein and Nicolae Ceaușescu) and personalities (amongst them Coco […]

Jones, played by Clive Dunn OBE (born 1920), was best known for his catchphrases: “Permission to speak, sir?”, “You saved my life!” and “They don’t like it up ‘em!” In Dad’s Army he plays the town butcher of Walmington-on-Sea and when his precious delivery van is commandeered by his Home Guard, he is far from amused when modifications are made to it for the platoon’s activities.

In one episode the van is damaged and Jones becomes so upset that he threatens to ban Captain Mainwaring, the Home Guard company commander, from his sausage list. This is met with the reply: “Steady Jones.”

It may not be a case of: “There’s a war on” when this lot comes to auction, but you can bet there’ll be some fierce bidding. As Jones frequently said: “Don’t panic! Don’t panic!”

For more information on the sale, go to: http://www.bonhams.com

Watch a clip of the van in action at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkoDcFNR1H4&feature=player_embedded

For more information on Dad’s Army, see the Dad’s Army Appreciation Society page at: http://www.dadsarmy.co.uk/