Price lists
1931-1954Booklets, leaflets and posters advertising prices of food sold at J Sainsbury e.g. 'Good food for Christmas', 'Good food', a list of prices for customers published fortnightly, three copies of a 1929...
SA/BL/3/53
Images of motorised home delivery vehicles
[c. 1930-1950s]Black and white photographs, slide transparencies and negatives of motorised home delivery vans and delivery staff.
SA/BRA/5/5/1/4/3
Photograph of Orderline van
[c. 1998-2000]Colour photograph of Orderline home delivery van and driver.
SA/BRA/5/5/2/3
Image of Bournemouth (146/8 Old Christchurch Road) branch exterior
c. 1931Black and white print. Also features two of the branch's delivery vans outside the shop. The 'Mummy buys her tea at Sainsbury's' advertisement (see SA/MARK/ADV/IMA/1/2/2) is posted in the window. G....
SA/BRA/7/B/31/1/1
Image of Sainsbury's van at Colchester Hospital Carnival
1939Photograph of a van from the Sainsbury's branch at 40-41 High Street, Colchester with banner 'Give Freely To Your Hospital'. The man on the left (with delivery basket) has been identified as Mr...
SA/BRA/7/C/31/1/11
Image of 4/5 High Street, Oxford branch driver and Morris delivery van
[1930s]SA/BRA/7/O/4/1/5
Data on Bedford 5 and 6 ton vans
13 Jun 1958One outsize sheet featuring drawings and specifications for Bedford 5 and 6 ton vans.
SA/DEP/TRAN/3
Transport material
[c. 1930s-1990s]Includes: Drivers' handbooks and standing instructions. Two postcards and one photograph of early delivery vans. J.S. Drivers Club membership cards and Transport and General Workers Union...
SA/DEP/TRAN/4
Transport material
[c. 1930s-1990s]Includes: Copies of magazines featuring articles on transport and Sainsbury's. Statistic and information relating to Sainsbury's transport e.g. cost of horse feed, cycle repairs and motorised...
SA/DEP/TRAN/7
Model vans
[1990s]Contains the following die-cast vintage model vans decorated in Sainsbury's livery: Horse drawn removal van Y-19 Morris Cowley van (1929) Sentinel steam wagon (1931) Mack canvas back truck...
SA/DEP/TRAN/12
Images of vehicles
1890s-1990sIncludes images of Sainsbury's vehicles from horse drawn vans to refrigerated lorries.
SA/DEP/TRAN/IMA/1
Images of motorised bulk delivery vehicles
1930s-1990sBlack and white photographs, slide transparencies and negatives of motorised depot - to - branch delivery vans and delivery staff.
SA/DEP/TRAN/IMA/3
Memoranda about Matchbox model vintage van
23 May 1990Internal memos from Miss B. Williams [Company Archivist/Historian] to Mr C. Leaver regarding the production of 1930s Matchbox model vintage van, including further information on its availability for...
SA/FAM/5/28/5
Press Advertisements and Notices, 1931-33
1931-1933Includes advertisements of products, prices, branch openings, Morris light vans (Sainsbury logo), reward notice concerning impersonation of staff and Cambridge hostel for staff. Branches opened or...
SA/MARK/ADV/1/1/1/1/1/6/14
Press Advertisements and Notices, 1933
1933Includes advertisements of products, prices, branch openings, delivery vans and scotch beef from the royal Balmoral farms. Branches opened or extended are: Woking (High Street); Farnham (The Borough);...
SA/MARK/ADV/1/1/1/1/1/6/15
Advertising material, 1940-46
May 1940-May 1946Includes: table listing the advertising spaces booked in the Evening News, Standard and Star newspapers, with details of the column inches taken up in each publication and pencil annotations...
SA/MARK/ADV/4/1/16
Sainsbury's safety matches box - a ford delivery van 1921
1980sSA/PKC/PRO/2/4/3/4/8/4
Press releases, 2009
2009December 16 UK's first police training centre opens at Sainsbury's store in Barkingside December 3 Sainsbury’s to launch the ‘world’s largest fleet of electric vans’ November 20 Sainsbury's...
SA/PR/2/1/44
Photograph outside of Norwich House, Streatham 1977 - men with cases stepping out of van on street
1977SA/REG/OFF/4/1/4
'JS Journal', February 1954
Feb 1954Transport department (includes pictures of delivery vans at Victoria branch, Blackfriars, St Albans branch) pgs 1-11; Implications of the White Paper on decontrol of food by F. W. Salisbury pgs 21-24;...
SA/SC/JSJ/8/1