4×4S.ORGTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 1958–68
NAMED MODELSpecial · GPO & MailUnited Kingdom

Gipsy with fire brigades and the General Post Office.

The service Gipsy: General Post Office telephone vehicles in yellow and fire-brigade light tenders and rescue units, the civil fleets that gave the Gipsy most of its work.

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Sources & evidence
Gipsy with fire brigades and the General Post Office — A 1961 Gipsy fire engine and trailerDavid Merrett from Daventry, England · CC BY 2.0 ↗
BASE VEHICLEGipsy (1958–68)BUILT BYAustin Motor Company, LongbridgeIN SERVICE1958–68OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTIONNot publishedLAYOUT4 wheels · 90″

The record

The GPO ran Gipsies alongside Land Rovers; fire brigades used them as light pumps and rescue vehicles in the 1960s.

Research status: draft — identification, dates or figures could not all be pinned down; the summary says what is unresolved.

Specification

MANUFACTURED1958–68
ENGINE2.199-litre petrol four; 2.178-litre diesel
PRODUCTION RUNNot published
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSout of production
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEGipsy
FAMILYGipsy
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE90″
BODY STYLEhard
CATEGORYSpecial · GPO & Mail

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Variants & colours

Base model variants

Factory colours

  • Deep Bronze Green

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

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Sources

  1. 1Austin Gipsy ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-22SOURCE
  2. 2Profile — The Austin Gipsy ↗Moss Motoring · accessed 2026-09-22SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-22 · status: draft