Author of the book and volunteer Chris Garrod described what it was like to drive it. <\/p>\n
“Noisy! It’s one of those vehicles that has no indicators, no seatbelts and it misbehaves,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’ll go around 40 odd miles an hour, so it’s not a slow machine, but it’s not the most comfortable of rides.<\/p>\n
“It’s had an amazing time. It worked as a baker’s van, a confectioner’s van and went round the whole of London.”<\/p>\n
The van was bought by the museum at auction in 2012 and it has become one of its prize assets.<\/p>\n
Stuart Wright, chairman of the museum, said: “We can’t take the museum on the road but we do take the van out with our platoon of lookalikes and they’re well received. People love having their photo taken beside it.”<\/p>\n
Regarding the work he added: “Is it something that we thought might be coming at some point? Not to this extent. <\/p>\n
“We try and have it serviced once a year, which obviously keeps us ship-shape, but obviously it’s all come as a perfect storm this year and needed to be done.”<\/p>\n
The Dad’s Army Museum is open now until the end of November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author of the book and volunteer Chris Garrod described what it was like to drive it. “Noisy! It’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-565239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}