Cant say I've seen an undercover one of these before! they even have an awning attached haha
Very Sneaky!
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Hopefully they have a kitchen too, everyone needs a brew on a stake out...
Lancashire Police have started using liveried Transporters - haven't seen an unmarked one yet. It beats the Leyland Sherpa vans we had for a while - so easy to tip over on high speed corners.
Did you have the V8 ones? The college I went to had one as a minibus.
The standard Sherpas were whatever the standard engine was, the personnel carriers were V8s. I remember driving a fully loaded personnel carrier flat out on the A590 in Cumbria, there were a few white knucles in the back. The joys of being an advanced driver!
I was on a Firearms team that had a Sherpa with a V8 engine, it was truly terrifying in that the power was totally unsuited to something that had cart springs on the rear! Fully loaded with 12 of us and kit it would do over 100mph, even at low speeds on a wet road it was a proper handful.
Like this one?
Morris Leyland Sherpa 250 Minibus
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Those Sherpa's had an interesting trait of going around corners on 3 wheels I see to recall...
I remember being part of a firearms team plus land-shark carrying out an ambush on a very dangerous 'customer' at York District Hospital. We were in a T5 medium roof, fully blacked out windows and interior. No kettle.
nah it was a Transporter
I was chatting to a Police fleet manager one day many years ago and he explained that it can make economic sense to buy more expensive brand vehicles where the resale value is likely to be higher. That might be part of the reason why some forces are using T6's.
They also have a problem now with vans containing too many seats or plated for to high a gross weight as the old fossils who had the D1 entitlement on their licences have retired so they rarely buy big 12 seaters anymore.
They also have a problem now with vans containing too many seats or plated for to high a gross weight as the old fossils who had the D1 entitlement on their licences have retired so they rarely buy big 12 seaters anymore.
Old fossils? How wude!
By a weird coincidence I say a silver apparently commercial sign written van go past me on blues and twos when I was doing the school run this afternoon...
There is an unmarked silver Transporter in the Poole area. The inside is racked out and full of kit.
Minds me of doing a job where a traffic policeman was doing a homer and we got speaking to him.
When we were finished we said bye and he said catch you later.
I replied I effin’ hope not
When we were finished we said bye and he said catch you later.
I replied I effin’ hope not
