Jafvans

Jafvans of Harrow was founded by John Arthur Fisher in 1959. The original "office" was at his house in Northolt which he started off with one vehicle - his own Ford Prefect. He used his initials and called it JAF Cars. When he bought a van, he called the van side JAF Vans. As business progressed, JAFVANS became the trading name of the whole company. In 1970, Mr Fisher decided to expand his company and moved to current location at 400 Northolt Road, which was a Newsagent with a big garden at the back. In those days, cars and vans used to get stuck in the mud because the back garden was used for parking. At that time, company had approximately 20 vehicles (cars and vans). One of the first vans on the fleet in those years was Ford Thames. Cars included Vauxhall Viscount, Ford Anglia, Ford Cortina Mark One Vauxhall Viva HA, Zodiac etc. An early Jafvans Transit was captured on film called "The Plank" starring Eric Sykes and Tommy Cooper.