Trade Boxes

David, I do not think that the divider in your box is original. The original had a cross member as shown on the picture above. Of course I may be wrong.

Perhaps there were two types used. Dave

Who knows ?

An Austin Wagon 30j Trade Box. Dave

A trade box containing three individually boxed 301 Field Marshall Tractors. In the picture are four boxed examples showing the three variations in model and four in box style. Just to make it complete. The earliers example in the dual numbered box is the only one with an orange exhaust stack. As far as I know, there are no more variations of this model, or perhaps one with green metal wheels and an orange exhaust stack is out there? Rob

Rob An excellent collection of Field-Marshall tractors together with the Trade Pack that would have been used for all except the first version. The Trade Pack replaced the earlier Trade Boxes once the models were individually packaged in their own yellow box. I have several of these, for the 180 Packard Clipper and 253 Ambulance as well as Trade Pack for the French Dinky 551 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith. Here is my Trade Pack for the Packard Clipper, which was quality stamped in October 1961. Bruce

Trade Box of 30N Farm Produce Wagon with the three color variations. Kind regards, Rob

Rob--What a colorful box full of trucks! So nice to see all of those trade boxes, often filled with different colored cars and trucks, and several of you have so many to show. I feel somewhat lacking in this department, but I do have just a few trade boxes to show, so will post these now. Unfortunately, only one of them was full of models...the other two are just boxes I obtained with the last model in them. TerryThis first one is memorable to me, as I found it and the Citroen 11BL in it in a tiny toy store in east San Diego, that I had never visited before, in 1959, and it held a pristine grey Citroen which I have always been very fond of.

This next one is for the Midget Saloon

And this last one is for the Robot Traffic signal. I had ordered one of the signals from H.Hudson Dobson, and they accidentally sent me the whole box. I wrote them back, offering to return them, but they said to just keep them, as they were not very expensive.........again, around 1959.

Terry, Nice tradeboxes. From 1958 to 1961 the 773 trafic light was $ 0.35 and Hudson Dobson probably has too many in stock that did not sale, offering them to you was a good advertissement and that helped to clear their shelves. Jacques.

Some time ago, I already posted the following trade box in the thread of the Ford Vedette Taxi. Kind regards Richard

I have also a few french tradeboxes, all obtained free fifty years ago.

dinkyfan wrote: 'Rob--What a colorful box full of trucks! So nice to see all of those trade boxes, often filled with different colored cars and trucks, and several of you have so many to show. I feel somewhat lacking in this department, but I do have just a few trade boxes to show, so will post these now. Unfortunately, only one of them was full of models...the other two are just boxes I obtained with the last model in them. Terry And this last one is for the Robot Traffic signal. I had ordered one of the signals from H.Hudson Dobson, and they accidentally sent me the whole box. I wrote them back, offering to return them, but they said to just keep them, as they were not very expensive.........again, around 1959. [/url]' Terry It is nice to see someone have a win! A full box of 773 for the price of one?! Wish Australia had a distributor like H. Hudson Dobson! Bruce