There are very few symbols of British popular culture more instantly recognisable than those created by the great British television sitcom, and arguably none is remembered more fondly than Only Fools and Horses.

Whilst the Trotters themselves became national treasures, there is one battered little yellow three-wheeler that became almost as famous as Del Boy and Rodney themselves
First broadcast in 1981, Only Fools and Horses starred the much-loved David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst as Derek and Rodney Trotter, initially alongside Leonard Pearce as Grandad and subsequently Buster Merryfield as Uncle Albert
The show's finest moments are now firmly embedded in British television history.

Batman and Robin in Heroes and Villains, The Jolly Boys' Outing, the discovery of the priceless John Harrison watch in Time on Our Hands and, perhaps most memorably, the chandelier sequence in A Touch of Glass
Through it all, one object became inseparable from the Trotters – their yellow Reliant van, p...