starni999 wrote:I knew it was the yellow roller as soon as I looked at the pic. But thought "no it can't be" What a winner mate! Fantastic.
You want to shift the Timpo artic you know where I am....
CW.
Trevor asked me about the timpo arctic as well ,but i am trying to get a bit of a collection of these.
dave
johnboy wrote:What a brilliant find. Isn't this hobby great, when new/old things or things you hardly ever see still keep turning up.
New things are always showing up,last week i bid on three pieces of lesney artwork but was well outbid but it was still good to see these things out there,it is a great hobby
Alwin van Hattem wrote:What an amazing find, congratulations! Very impressive line up, just love pictures like these.
Thanks alwin ,heres an old pic of my large lesney coaches,i have even more now but i don,t buy them has often has i use too just the odd one now and again.
Nice find Dave. Not sure if you remember but I also found a yellow one but was an obvious repaint ( I hope it was at least !) so stripped it down. Don't know why none have been found in yellow so far as most of these early toys all shared the same colours and remember at the end of the war paint was in scarce supply and limited to what you could get.
It looks very genuine to me, even the finish to the paint looks aged and the axle ends are all genuine looking so you have probably made the find of the year. Just don't let Gary or the German boys know or they will be round to rob you ! I'm still looking for the orange version with black wheels plus of course a few roofs as usual. I got one that I thought was tan to go with my tan roller but looks more a sun faded green that has gone a weird colour.
but i don,t buy them has often has i use too just the odd one now and again. 
