27f and 344 Estate Car (1950- 61)

This 344 plain box not yet pictured in this topic. Bargain. 900. Jan Oldenhuis

Hello allI am sorry to have missed the agm and to meet all these nice Dinky fellows but I had to canceel my planed trip to England.Errors in the GBDT are extremely rare but I do not understand what Mike wrote about the baseplate of the 27f. 'number only on tinplate base that hooks through rear body to create number plate' are'nt all the base plates assembled through the rear bumper ? Can you help please ?Jacques

Jacques. There are a lot of pictures shown of the base plate and all hooks around the rear bumper. I haven't seen any other. There is no pillar at the back of the model to riveting the base plate to the back. Before that, the base plate was hooked around the rear bumper to secure it at the rear and that creates a license/number plate on the back.With regard to the number in the base plate, the table on page 218 GBofDT provides a clear answer. Estate Car is classified as D = 'Bases with small lettering which can be enlarged.', so the base was not limited in size to get a number as for instance Massey-Harris Tractor, classified as C.That's my theory. I find this statement by Richardson difficult to place what he means. It would be very nice if we could see a drawing of the base, Job No 13223. I am adding some related photos.Jan Oldenhuis, 12 July 2022