{"id":61,"date":"2008-02-19T21:04:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T20:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/61"},"modified":"2008-02-19T21:04:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T20:04:41","slug":"more-fleet-purchases-ford-transits-for-british-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/61","title":{"rendered":"More Fleet Purchases: Ford Transits for British Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Gas must be one of the most well-known companies in the UK &#8211; and their fleet of vans must be one of the largest, at around 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>The company are currently renewing and adding to their van fleet with a total of 723 new<img src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/british-gas-transit.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Transit in British Gas livery\" align=\"right\" \/> Ford Transits &#8211; 85 short wheelbase (SWB) models, and 638 medium wheelbase (MWB) models.<\/p>\n<p>British Gas&#8217;s fleet support manager, Martin Lock, said that &#8220;The Ford Transit was the best cost option for our business. It&#8217;s popular with the engineers and we have a long-standing relationship with Ford that works well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, all vans are being specified with 70mph speed limiters to improve safety and fuel economy. All vans also have air-conditioning and single passenger seats &#8211; which when combined with exemplary maintenance and low mileage should make them very desirable second-hand buys when they come off lease in five years&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>The new vans are being delivered at a rate of 30 vans per week &#8211; and are fully-liveried and fitted with Bri-Stor internal racking and roof-mounted ladder racks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Gas must be one of the most well-known companies in the UK &#8211; and their fleet of vans must be one of the largest, at around 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>The company are currently renewing and adding to their van fleet with a total of 723 newFord Transit in British Gas livery Ford Transits &#8211; 85 short wheelbase (SWB) models, and 638 medium wheelbase (MWB) models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[50,51,49,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}