§ 61. Mr. Nabarroasked the Assistant Postmaster-General what arrangements are being made to bring the cypher of Her Majesty the Queen into use on Post Office mail vans and on letter boxes.
§ Mr. GammansOver 13,000 Post Office vans and motor cycles display the Royal Cypher. Arrangements have been made for the new Cypher to be stencilled on these vehicles as and when they become due for repainting and as soon as the necessary transfers can be manufactured. In the case of letter boxes, the Royal Cypher is cast into the box and replacement would be very costly. It has never been the practice to replace a box simply because it bears the Cypher of a previous reign and it is not proposed to depart from this practice. I hope, however, that the first box to bear the Cypher of Her Majesty the Queen will he ready by the end of this year.