GWR orders for the Fruit D express fruit van were still being delivered into the 1950s. These useful vans were widely used for express parcels the growing small consignments business being able to travel with express parcels and local passenger trains to provide rapid parcel transit times.
This model is finished in the BR maroon livery applied from 1958, with many of these Fruit D vans remaining in traffic into the blue era of the 1970s.