Roadside Club Radio Gen 1

History

The Royal Automobile Club's road patrols were motorcycle combinations until the early 1950s, when the Club began putting patrolmen into 4×4s that could carry proper tools, tow a car and work in any weather. The V-Shorty hard tops were among its first four-wheeled patrol vehicles, painted the Roadside Club's dark blue with the Club's diamond badge and ROAD SERVICE lettering, and fitted with a spotlight on the bumper for night work and a TOWING sign to warn following traffic when a car was on the rope. KAD 265 is recorded by Oxford Diecast's 1:43 model LAN180006 (and its 1:76 counterpart), the reference here: Roadside Club blue all over with blue wheels, ROAD SERVICE in white on the board below the windscreen, the Roadside Club diamond over ROAD SERVICE on the hard-top sides, the diamond on the left wing front and the black KAD 265 plate on the right, a TOWING sign and a spotlight on the bumper, and the spare stowed inside rather than on the bonnet.