Racing car and Competiton version numbers

[StephenK]

I realised today that my Dinky No 236 Connaught has #26 stickers on it rather than #32. They certainly look original so my question is whether anyone knows of any swapping of numbers when new. e.g If all the #32's were used up on any one day and there were some #26's handy, could these have been factory applied? Does anyone have any other examples of this?

Thanks
Stephen

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Sounds interesting Stephen, I am not aware of any other number being applied to this model, even modern day reproduction decals do not allow a number '26' to be used, I think it needs looking at 'In Hand' for a closer inspection, preferably alongside another model with the number '32' decal.

GHOSTHUNTER.

[Fred7A]

Number 26 was used on the Sunbeam Alpine, so there is a possibility that a mistake or substitution was made in the factory.

A more likely possibility is that a previous owner changed the numbers using original Dinky transfers, which were sold in thrupenny packs containing 3 sets of numbers.

These were mentioned on the back cover of the September 1957 issue of Meccano Magazine under the description of the new Jaguar D-Type. This almost seems an admission that some penny pinching has been going on, resulting in the surprising omission of racing numbers on the Jaguar. I wonder how popular these packs of racing transfers were. They don't seem to be very common nowadays.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

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[StephenK]

It might have to be filed under "unexplained". There's probably a very simple explanation that's been lost in time.

Thanks
Stephen

[Fred7A]

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GHOSTHUNTER.

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[GHOSTHUNTER]

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Ghosty.

[dinkycollect]

Number 26 was used on the Sunbeam Alpine, so there is a possibility that a mistake or substitution was made in the factory.

These were mentioned on the back cover of the September 1957 issue of Meccano Magazine under the description of the new Jaguar D-Type. This almost seems an admission that some penny pinching has been going on, resulting in the surprising omission of racing numbers on the Jaguar.

Meccano did not do a mistake by not applying racing numbers to the type D Jaguar. This model is finished in a typical Jaguar green which was applied to all models. The final colour has to be applied by the buyer at his wish and his country.