martinj wrote:Sorry I meant to say I don’t know if 1995 was when the chassis cab rolled off the assembly line or when it went away to the coach builders for the body to be bolted on.
Sort of both and sort of Neither...
Underneath its a standard LWB van chassis, it would have left Southampton without the roof (August 95), and without the rearmost external panel etc. (I.e. a partially complete van with rolling chassis). They were then shipped to one of Fords other sites in the UK (I can't remember which off hand) where the rest of the body and the roof was added by SVO - thats why all highcubes have SVO stickers. Once completed a few weeks later it would have been shipped to the electric board, who did the conversion work they wanted before it was registered - hence on a P rather than N plate.
If you look underneath, and behind the internal panelling, you can see that the rear of the van is literally bolted on by the factory.
I would suggest this is *probably* the 2nd oldest surviving twin wheel highcube (and oldest 230 variant). Mine has the later features you mention, because Ford used it as a development mule for test fitting of the later parts
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