465 Morris Van Capstan (1957-59)

Hi Terry,Perhaps Admin will move this to a more appropriate category, but here is my Foden National Benzole tanker. I agree that Dinky could have made more livery variations on many of their castings, tankers were particularly colourful and attractive. Kevin.

Kevin I hope you will not be holding your breath for the administrator/moderator to transfer your Post and those from Terry relating to your beautifully restored Foden tanker and its unique box, as I have posted several comments concerning the old Forum and my missing and incomplete Posts (which also affect many others as well) and these Posts go back to the 1st and 5th January and none of my Posts have been acted upon nor have I received any direct communication. It appears that once Posts have reached the #15 of the RECENT COMMENTS they just drop off the radar. However, you do have a number of choices where your Post can go: DTCA MEMBER INFORMATION AND DINKY TOYS PREFERENCES Forum and then DINKY RESTORATION thread GENERAL INFORMATION AND POSTS Forum and then RESTORERS DINKY TOYS TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS Forum and then RESTORING DINKY TOYS Thread The transfer of all the Posts in this Thread not related to the 465 Morris Commercial Van 'Capstan'has to be acted on soon BY THOSE WHO MANAGE THIS WEBSITE before it becomes swamped with unrelated Posts. Kind regards Bruce (150) 14 January 2016 #753

Kevin I would like to see a couple of nice pics of that if you can; it looks very nice, and makes you wonder if Dinky should made a yellow variant. Regards, Terry

Hello Kevin, Bruce, et al, The administrator can move then entire topic, in this case 'Creating a new topic in the DTCA Forum 1. After logging onto the DTCA website select Publications > PDF Library. Click on DTCA-Forum-Topics. Scroll down to find the Topic title for your new posting. Highlight the title and copy it. 2. Then, click on Forum. Scroll down to the main Forum you want to post in. In this case it is British Commercial Vehicles. Click on the link. Near the top of the page, just under the British Commercial Vehicles title is a link, New topic. Click on New topic. Click in the Subject box and paste the new topic into it. You must put something into the Body of the posting in order for this new topic to appear in the list. I trust this information will help you out. Dave Note: The reason for the Topic List is so that the topics will be sorted properly.

Bruce, Above you mention three different posts for the code 3 models : 'However, you do have a number of choices where your Post can go: DTCA MEMBER INFORMATION AND DINKY TOYS PREFERENCES Forum and then DINKY RESTORATION thread GENERAL INFORMATION AND POSTS Forum and then RESTORERS DINKY TOYS TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS Forum and then RESTORING DINKY TOYS Thread'I do not know what is in these but I suppose that the subject is the same and that one thread would be enough for the restoration techniques and an other one called 'Code 3 models' could contain posts such as Kevin's above.If the post can not be moved, Kevin can write it again or copy it in one of the three threads mentioned above and then dellite his post in the Morris van thread by using the edit button.

A couple of images of the Capstan Cigarettes Morris Van. Dave

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Hello all, I will no doubt have been sleeping all the time, but I suddenly realize that the header name of this topic is quite different from any name variant Meccano may ever have used when referring to this model. Just an observation. Kind regards, Jan

Jan Have just read your Post above. I have made a comment relevant to some of the names that are listed in the pdf file. You can read it under the 651 Centurion Tank topic, or as it is currently referred to as the 651 Centurion 'Main Battle' Tank topic. In essence, this is what I wrote: 'I can list countless titles that obviously reflect a collective whim at the time rather than following explicitly the terminology used by Meccano. If need be, the title could have the model's correct designation in brackets in a similar manner to that used by Jacques for another model, although I would prefer to simply leave the title exactly as Meccano had 'decreed' it to be.' I have noticed the title of this Topic since it was created, but refrained from writing anything in case I was the only one who queried it. Nice to read your observations though. Kind regards Bruce (150) 20160405/870/1445

There is at least one Capstan van fitted with the baseplate from the mail van. The photo provided was so loosy that I trashed it. So I am looking for an at least decent photo of the baseplate of such a van.