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Model No
VA00409
This
version of the Anglia Van was introduced into the Lledo
Vanguards range in 1999,
in "National Benzole" livery. - The model is to
1:43rd Scale
Model
No |
Exterior
Colour |
Interior
Colour |
Wheels |
VA00409 |
Yellow |
Black |
Black |
The
Model
The Box it
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The
Accessories
This model
came with wing mirrors for the buyer to fit, as well as a
Collectors Card.
Click Here to see the Accessories
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The History
The National Benzole
Company was formed in England in 1919 to market
motor benzole, a by-product of coal
carbonisation. For normal motor car engines it
was blended with petrol as National Benzole
mixture; by the 1950s there were over 250 benzole
plants as sociated with gas works or the steel
industry. With the decline of coking coal as a
fuel, benzole production fell and in 1957
National Benzole was acquired by Shell-Mex &
BP Ltd.
National was retained as an independent brand and
merged with Power Petroleum, which had been
bought in 1934. The "Benzole" was
downplayed in the late 1960s as natural gas
replaced town gas and National products sold by
over 4,650 garages became simply petrol. When
Shell and BP divorced in the 1970s, about 40% of
the National stations switched to Shell, but the
brand was kept by BP in England only.
Between 1981 and 1988 the name was slowly
replaced by BP. However in 1992 the Scottish
independent NEF reintroduced the brand under
licence from BP and today it is used at over 100
small filling stations across the UK supplied by
BP authorised distributors.
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(History kindly supplied by http://www.petrolmaps.co.uk)
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