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2nd prize photograph and award (actual exhibit) for Horse Van (Ball Street Loading Dock). International Horse Show, Olympia 1910. (GUAS Ref: HF 51/8/1/1/3 photo 9. Copyright reserved.) Photograph of a typical John Barker Van about 1910-1912. Horse drawn trailer van, having metal tyres, used in the early days in connection with the Removals and Warehousing section of the business. (GUAS Ref: HF 51/8/1/1/3 photo 10. Copyright reserved.) Mammoth New Zealand Cheese. Purchased by John Barkers from the Wembley exhibition: Cheeses loaded ready for transportation to the store in Kensington, 1924. (GUAS Ref: HF 51/8/1/1/3 photo 13. Copyright reserved.) Photograph of a typical John Barker Van. Example of the fleet of Delivery Vans in current use by the Company, for forwarding of customers’ goods over a wide area daily, in London and the Home Counties, about 1959. (GUAS Ref: HF 51/8/1/1/3 photo 11. Copyright reserved.)
       
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