The famous Gardner-engined Foden diesel furniture van. Perhaps it was this van that firmly ended the era that had begun in the mid-19th century with James Archer’s horse-drawn removals vans were rolled onto rail wagons to be rail-transported long-distances to a rail-depot nearest to the domestic destination, ready for the final few miles to be accomplished by a 'horse-power’ (literally), but without any unpacking of the contents until it reached the intended destination.
As the caption in the scrapbook says, this vehicle was new on 13th October 1960, and has a capacity of 1100 cubic feet for furniture, and has a Gardner diesel engine, and was designated by Archer Cowley as “Foden IV”, meaning, presunmably, that it was the fourth Foden vehicle that the company (then, or altogether? I know not) possessed. As can also be seen in this colour graphic, the registration number of this vehicle was: 942 JJO (the suffix “JO” being an Oxford-registration indicator. For example, my father’s cars had been HJO 800 and PFC 300 (“FC” also indicating Oxford).