{"id":2731,"date":"2011-12-15T06:01:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T06:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2011-12-14T20:16:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T20:16:20","slug":"one-bridge-60-ford-transit-vans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2731","title":{"rendered":"One Bridge, 60 Ford Transit Vans&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the centenary of Ford in Britain, the company is releasing a series of photos from its archives &#8211; one each week.<\/p>\n<p>This week it is the turn of the Ford Transit. Back in 2005, Ford was celebrating a twin landmark for this van as it celebrated its 40th birthday <em>and<\/em>\u00a0the five millionth Transit van rolled off the production line in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/southampton\">Southampton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the occasion, the Transit Van Club teamed up with Ford to organise a convoy of 60 vans across the QE2 bridge:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2732\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2732\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2732\" title=\"Ford Transit 40th birthday convoy 2005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ford-transit-40yo-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Transit 40th birthday convoy 2005\" width=\"330\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ford-transit-40yo-sm.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ford-transit-40yo-sm-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2005, 60 Transit vans drove in convoy over the QE2 bridge to mark the Transit&#39;s 40th birthday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today, the Ford Transit has been in continuous production in Britain for 46 years. It is undoubtedly one of the most successful vans ever conceived and thoroughly deserves its reputation. I&#8217;ve owned two and would not hesitate to buy a third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005 the Ford Transit celebrated its 40th birthday and 5 millionth production unit. In this archive picture, a convoy of 60 Ford vans travels over the QE2 bridge to market the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[123,1273,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}