The highest price went to a box of six Type 1 vans bearing nationally recognised trade names. This passed its £18,000-22,000 estimate to fetch £30,000.
It was one of only two such complete boxes to come on the market. Each van was individually branded for Hornby Trains (No.28a), Pickfords (No.28b), Manchester Guardian (No.28c), Oxo (No.28d), Ensign Cameras (No.28e) and Palethorpes (No. 28f).
Apparently much rarer was a single Dinky No.22d van bearing the name W.E. Boyce, a cycle shop on the Archway Road in Highgate in the 1930s and still trading under this name into the early 1960s.
This achieved £17,000 against a £7000-10,000 estimate. It is thought by Vectis to be the only one of its kind.
Dinky prices have not been seen at this level since 1994 when Christie's sold a 1937 Bentall's delivery van for £11,000. A few months later, in December 1994, a previously unrecorded c.1938 280 series Fenwicks van achieved £3200 at Anderson & Garland of Newcastle.
Surviving examples of these vans are rare in any state so the excellent condition of both Vectis lots made them particularly desirable.
