660 Thornycroft mighty Antar Tank Transporter (195664)

Bruce Your theory about forgeting some models in the store room is not quite right.When launching the production of any model, the quantity of castings necessary for a batch is slightly increased in case of rejected and recycled catings. In the case of a model with several castings which is the case of the tank transporter and many other models the number of each finished parts is different and the surplus is stocked in the store room until a new batch is made which can be several months or even a year. They are not forgoten and will be used for the next run. This can result in different shades between the two parts and mix of castings of different variations like Dinky Toys and Dinky Supertoys, Supertoys in Dinky Toys boxes etc... Question : When was the window glazing added ?

A good example of transitional model is this Tipper with a Terex front grill and the chassis is engraved with Euclid. Photo by courtesy of Bruce Hoy.

Jacques I refer you to your Post #25, which I presume is in reply to my Post #22. I think if you carefully read what I wrote, you seem to have concentrated on one of my theories that happened to have been my second a 'less likely scenario'. This is what I wrote: As for your DINKY TOYS casting in the August 1956 box, for what it is worth, I think somewhere at some time, the first owner who may have been given two models, or a subsequent collector prior to the collector from whom you purchased it, has mixed his models when returning them to their boxes. Very easy to do, as I can speak from experience. The only thing that corrected matters in my case were the photographs I take each time I receive a model. Without this evidence it would have been a case of 'remembering'!! (Especially as most collectors are not as fussy as some of us!! :laugh: :laugh: ) The only other possible scenario, and an extremely unlikely one at that, is a number of models manufactured in the early days had been sitting in the storage room waiting their boxes, then forgotten about momentarily and when found in August, they were then boxed. Nobody would have been perturbed with the DINKY TOYS casting on the base of the trailer. I have emphasised the wording of the second scenario IN BOLD which I considered extremely unlikely, so in effect, you are agreeing with what I have previously written. Finally, I trust the image used was taken from the DTCA website and from no other source. Window Glazing was added to the cab of the 660 Tank Transporter on 15 December 1959 as per Drawing No. 7833 with the earliest quality inspection stamp I have located being dated March 1961. Two models for which I have inspection details that came out of the factory in September and October 1960 did not have window glazing.[/b] Bruce Hoy (150) 20171709/1159/2229