MOKOSEX wrote:...the chassis thicknesses have already been noted...
...but not in Nick's variation table!
But we can say now the thin ones came first ,it will be interesting to see how rare/common the thin lugs are,its not something i have gone out and looked for.
dave
MOKOSEX wrote:But we can say now the thin ones came first ,it will be interesting to see how rare/common the thin lugs are,its not something i have gone out and looked for.
Since thickening the chassis rails would not only require the removal of metal from the tooling but would also result in a stronger casting, it seems certain that the thinner ones represent the initial design. However, the catalogues I have reviewed seem to indicate that substantial stocks of these initial chassis castings were held in stock and so appeared on a significant number of later issues. (Who needs FIFO stock-keeping anyway?)
i have a yellow colored with the thin chassis rails...was this left over from the pre production days and they were done with painting these orange and into the yellow phase of this model and thats how this ended up in yellow?
Please use a web hosting site (like photobucket) to store pictures so you can post them here, using attachments makes it hard to view the pictures when you have to scroll to see them. Seeing comparisons of models is hard to see with attachments too.
Brad Pittiful wrote:i have a yellow colored with the thin chassis rails...was this left over from the pre production days and they were done with painting these orange and into the yellow phase of this model and thats how this ended up in yellow?
I don't think these thin chassis rail versions can be considered pre-production castings: they merely represent the first version of the chassis. In typical Lesney fashion, stocks were laid down but, when the casting was modified, the stockroom was not completely emptied of the initial versions. This resulted in the appearance of thin-railed chassis castings significantly out of timeline as tins/boxes of the first type chassis surfaced and were taken into production.
,it will be interesting to see how rare/common the thin lugs are,its not something i have gone out and looked for.
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