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13 years 1 week ago #11810 by buzzer999

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The 40d/152 Austin Devon.

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13 years 1 week ago #11811 by buzzer999

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A Bedford CA leaflet and the Dinky versions.

The Dinky version was very accurate to the original. Dave

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13 years 1 week ago #11812 by dinkyfan

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That Bedford CA van had to be a very popular and prolific van over in Britian, and have seen other models of it as well. Dinky certainly did well with their version and it does appear to be quite accurate...the only comment I can make is that from the photos it appears that the front grill is actually flat with vents in it and not the raised chrome grill that Dinky shows.....and I think the Dinky actually looks better for it! Terry

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13 years 1 week ago #11814 by dinkyfan

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Another American sedan, this time 39a, the Packard Super 8 SedanTerry

[img]/images/sites/default/files/forum-images/Dinky Toys 39 Packard side.jpg[/img]
[img]/images/sites/default/files/forum-images/Packard 1938 Super 8 real image.jpg[/img]

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13 years 1 week ago #11817 by buzzer999

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The Packard Super 8 is an impressive looking vehicle. Here is Bedford advert for the 621 3-ton Truck

Below are three variations of the 621 Dave

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13 years 1 week ago #11818 by Distribution

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Meccano chose to model the Vauxhall in house body of the RL, Vauxhall put the spare wheel under the body. All later production used Marshall bodies with the spare wheel behind the cab.

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13 years 1 week ago #11819 by buzzer999

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Here is the rear page of the above leaflet.

The note about the spare wheel confirms the above. Dave

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13 years 1 week ago #11820 by Distribution

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Vauxhall built over 72,000 RL's in both military and civilian models, originally as a 3 ton, later upgraded to 4 ton at the end of their lives, replaced by the MK in turn supplemented by the MJ which in turn replaced by the Leyland DAF weight increased to a 5 ton, and currently the MAN range are replacing the Leyland Daf. Although it seems at least one Bedford MJ is still in service, I observed it on the M27 recently. :woohoo:

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13 years 1 week ago #11824 by dinkyfan

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Another favorite model of mine is the early French Dinky 25 series Studebaker trucks.....Terry

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13 years 1 week ago #11826 by buzzer999

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The Studebaker is another fine example of the Dinky being true to the original. Here is the Big Bedford: Dave

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13 years 1 week ago #11827 by buzzer999

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The image for the above is 610 x 640 pixels and I thought that fell within the rules. Am I doing something wrong? Dave

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13 years 1 week ago #11828 by dinkyfan

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Dave-- Not sure what happened to your pictures. In my case, I load everything onto Photobucket, then transfer to the posts here. No matter how large my original is, Photobucket seems to downsize it automatically....I have never had a problem posting here or on other sites. To me it works very well and is very easy to do. Terry

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