An exhibition of postal transport history is being unveiled at Coventry Transport Museum. Here postal workers in 1883 use handcarts to cope with the introduction of Parcels Post

1880: Postal workers using five wheeled centre-cycles in Horsham, Sussex - the experiment was deemed a failure and they never entered wider service

1914: One of the women employed to drive the horse-drawn mail vans during World War l

1924: Postal workers using 125cc motorcycles for the first time

1971: A reliant three-wheeled van for mail work - unpopular with drivers, they were withdrawn in 1973

1945: A Morris Z van in wartime livery with wings and bumpers painted white to allow for greater visibility