Hello Jan,
May I addthe following to your picture of the day.The same Meccano Magazine contained an article about the Standard Vanguardand the Muir - Hill dumper.[img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / 1948_12_page429.jpg [/img] [img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / 1948_12_page441_1.jpg [/img] [img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / 1948_12_page441_2.jpg [/img]
Either you are not familiar with the American (
and in this case rather internationally accepted
) notation for 11 September,
or you missed some minor incident in the news of 2001.:
) Kind regards,
Jan
Jan,
I am going to be the devil ' s advocate: I think that our friend is not familiar with the english dates presentation ! But I can answer for the 9th of november: it ' s my daugther ' s birth day ! but in 1980 ! http: / /
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These backwards North American dates always intreaguedand confused me especially when I was living in the States,
they are the only country in the world to do this.Funny to see a Dutch chap writing backwards;
) Back on topic ! [img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / 2012_08_09.jpg [/img] I have never seen a mint one...this excellent + example being the best I have found thus far,
treads are still soft but I don ' t dare spin them round through fear of cracking them.64 years old now !
Thanks,
this Blaw Knox is a rightful successor for the Foden Tanker,
as it was introduced just one month later,
in January 1949.So,
another 65th anniversary model for just a few days to
go
! Mine has a comparable condition,
not fully mint either,
but excellent too (
yes: very careful with the thin fragile rubber Caterpillar tracks !
).I show it here because of its attractive second box version,
wrapped in lined green paper.[img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / IMG_5791.jpg [/img] Best regards,
Jan
Glad that you saw my logic in following up with my 561.Yours is indeed an attractive example.I wonder if these were chippedand damaged at the time of assembly,
mine was never used as a toy,
it was always in the hands of a collector since new.[img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / JAN1959A.jpg [/img] I am a little baffled at times with the rubber stamps found throughout the boxes of 1940s Dinky Toys.The bottom of the box has a blue circle stamp
Hi Richard This is one of my all time favourite Dinky models [img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / 34c_Eight_Loudspeaker_Vans -20131230.jpg [/img] Here are eight different colour variations.I would love to see more
and then I could try to track them down.Dave
Beautiful display Dave,
and so many wonderful different colors.It
and the plain van are delightful models.I have often wondered why Dinky chose not to addany advertising to the postwar van version....it would have added many nice collectable variations.Terry
Yes the lack of advertising is strange.Pre - war there was the wonderful 28 seriesand post - war there were the Bedford CA an Austin Devon vans but somehow the 280 was in a few plain colours only.Dave
