24a and 520 Chrysler New Yorker (1956-1960)

An another beautiful american car.

with the two different base plates: ' CHRYSLER NEW YORKER '
and ' CHRYSLER NEW YORKER 1955 ' [img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / CIMG1918.jpg [/img]

[img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / CIMG1664.jpg [/img] it ' s more readable on that photo Richard

and we also can see,
that the body ' s inside is different: On the top,
we can see that the inside is striated between the rare wheels
and the base plate
and smooth on the other below.That ' s mean: 2 moulds.Regards Richard

Please,
I appologize for my english: I meant ' REAR '
and not ' RARE '

Richard --Nice collection of Chrysler's there.....that metallic blue has to be hard to find. I only have one of the red ones, but always like the yellow-mustard version the best.

Beautiful Richard.A long - time desire for me (if I had only one, no matter what colour !).Kind regards,
Jan

Terry
and Jan: thank you for your interest.Friendly yours Richard

Here is the yellow car with the yellow box : Cheers

Here are my two 24A Chrysler New Yorker models, one in yellow, the other in red. The red is the later version with a change made to the base plate which is also reflected on the box. It took me several years to obtain the red example, and I am still searching for the yellow in the second version.

Unfortunately, back in 2014, I must have experienced a 'senior's moment' when I failed to include pictures showing the base plates for both models. Eighteen months later, and here are those images, although I do apologize for their quality. (I must have been hoping for Jan to add the appropriate images from his excellent photographic collection!!) However looking at these images, I do not know what camera I used back in 2007, but I will have to re-photograph both base plates with a better camera! Bruce (150) 20160602/929/1754

Subsequent to the recent acquisition of a fine red example of the Chrysler New Yorker (my only one, and expressed as a desired addition at #7 above) I wrote a provisional comment for my private catalogue. A quick translation below. Any additions and corrections very welcome, as usual. Some fresh pictures added too. The Chrysler New Yorker was introduced in Meccano Magazine of October 1956, as the third American of the French factory, as stated by Meccano Magazine. Slightly before, in the September Dinky Toys catalogue of 1956 it was announced for the first time already. The Chrysler was issued together with the Auto de course Ferrari, no. 23j. It was the first convertible manufactured by Meccano France with a moulded wide plastic windscreen, similar to the somewhat earlier (1955) Packard Convertible of the English Dinky Toys range. In fact, both models have a lot in common in terms of appearance and size. The usual white tyres give the model just a bit more elegance than the Packard. The French did not fix a driver yet. That happened with its successor, the Ford Thunderbird Cabriolet (no. 555) of 1961, featuring also fingertip steering and suspension. Like the no. 132 Packard Convertible from Liverpool (and its companion, the Cadillac Eldorado, no. 131) the steering wheel on this model is left-mounted and the whole construction is similar. With an actual wheelbase of 3200 mm and 64.5 mm of the model, the scale is 1:49.6 or rounded 1:50. The wooden mock-up still exists, executed in pink-like beige with ocher-yellow interior, without windshield and without the familiar mascot on the nose of the bonnet. It is preserved in the Collection L'Auto Jaune in Paris and shown in Roulets second edition, page 109. There are three consecutive variants to distinguish of this model. The first colours are yellow or mustard yellow with a green interior and dark red with an off-white interior. Only 'Chrysler New Yorker' is embossed as the model name in the base plate. The wheels are convex. Then, in 1957, the base plate with 'Chrysler New Yorker 1955' was introduced. That extension was also added to the model name below the image on the box. At that moment, the finish in metallic light blue with cream interior joined the previous ones. The wheels are still convex then. The last production, from 1959, shows hollow, concave wheels, just dual numbered on the box, 24a and the new number 520, and the yellow and mustard yellow versions have been discontinued. Confusing is the example shown in Gardiner and ONeills Collectors all-colour Guide to Toy Cars, page 67. In addition to the regular red version, a second red one is also presented, with a remarkably different grille, which probably should represent a 1956 model. Jacques Dujardin describes this copy on his DVD as a 'code 3' conversion. Hard to see how this has been executed in some detail. The real-world prototype is the Chrysler Windsor Convertible Coup New Yorker, launched in 1955. The hesitantly bulging rear lights seem to herald the development of the gaudy wings of the later 1950s. Kind regards, Jan













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