My first post, early Husky leaflet

[Jingley]

Hi everybody,
although this is my first post to the VBD forums, I have been signed up for quite a while and have been a regular reader but never got around to taking part.
2014 was the 50th anniversary of Husky Models, I believe they were launched just in time for the Christmas season in Woolworths. I was only three years old back then, so my memory of that is not too good.
Some of my earliest toy car memories are of Huskys. The two Buick Electras, SD Refuse Truck and the Ford Camper along with the four car garage were my favourites back then. In later years when I started to collect things from my childhood, Huskys were rediscovered and I collected more than I ever had as a child.
I will post pictures of my models as time allows, but thought it would be nice to start with the earliest leaflet. This shows the first 25 models in many unreleased colours, the price of 1'8 (one shilling and eight pence) was around 8p in new money as we called it.
Cheers,
John

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Welcome to the forum John and thank you for posting the images of that lovely Husky leaflet, we love to see this sort of model Ephemera here. We also look forward to seeing pictures of some of your models, thanks.

GHOSTHUNTER.

[motorman]

Hi John welcome to the forum, please feel free to add comments and contribute to the forum as you see fit. There are lost of very experienced but friendly collectors here how love our hobby. I am sure you will feel right at home......enjoy!!

[SMS88]

Nice to see such a rare early leaflet with the 1st larger Matchbox scale model car the Ford Thames being shown

[Jingley]

Nice to see such a rare early leaflet with the 1st larger Matchbox scale model car the Ford Thames being shown

It would look good with the "Singer" logo in that shade of green. Maybe the Mettoy guys hadn't decided which way to go with the range at that stage, the ladder and roof aerial didn't feature yet.
John