A Look at some played with pre-pros

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matchboxuk
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Re: A Look at some played with pre-pros

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Idris wrote:Would the factory have gone to the effort of writing '24-A-1"? It looks to me more like a collector's label (using American coding).
You're right but I can't remember where it came from. I thought it was from my usual source from the time. Very odd regarding the American coding though.
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Rob
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Re: A Look at some played with pre-pros

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Idris wrote:Would the factory have gone to the effort of writing '24-A-1"? It looks to me more like a collector's label (using American coding).
Many years ago at Sandown Toyfair I came across an old chap who had trays of unboxed near mint to mint late Regs wheels and Transitional Superfast, all were just a few Pounds each and interestingly enough duplicates all had consecutive handwritten labels like the one shown on the Rolls.
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Re: A Look at some played with pre-pros

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The cream 'Superfast' #24 surely is a colour trial as opposed to a preproduction. The body does not have the waistline trim-strip which the first 'Superfast' versions did have, plus the door handles are not as close to the shut-lines as on the earlier 'RW' bodies.

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