The first version of this casting arrived in 1957 as the mobile shop, then came the mobile butchers. After the circus booking office came the last version, the mobile snack bar. I suspect that as the Smiths one ton van had the same die cast base as the Bantam open sided bottle float and that it was another hangover from Mettoy days. It is not an easy to find Corgi, only just over 100,000 were made (compared to 1.6 million bubble cars - released in the same month) which explains its rarity. The van was released in January 1962 and deleted in 1964, turned hubs get a better price than spun hubs.

This one is very battered but these are very hard to find at a sensible price.  I picked up this, the International circus crane and an Impala poodle van from the same seller, none were expensive, but were badly presented on eBay so I don't think many people found them to bid.