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kwakers wrote:Move over detective Numi, Mr. Dave is knocking on your door! Quite an impressive week with these two AND the early Moko Truck in the lot you showed us recently. I am left speechless by Nick's link that I had seen several years ago. Great Work!
kwakers

The green driver early roller is my latest best find,in the holy grail section,and on friday i have to pick up another lot i won ,doctors orders!,it will make sense when i post on see what i just got hopefully friday evening,its been quite a busy couple of weeks!
dave

Gully truck is amazing and looks to be genuine made for Lesney model perhaps using the stem of a Rememberence day poppy to make the hose unit. The Enfield connection, where Jack Odell created his LLEDO factory is provenance enough for most folks!

Looks a great model, the vectis model is on a very early body with out rear braces. This one has the rear body braces so maybe it was made later. Would love that in my display. J

nearlymint wrote:Looks a great model, the vectis model is on a very early body with out rear braces. This one has the rear body braces so maybe it was made later. Would love that in my display. J

They could both have been made at the exact same time using whatever castings were handy in R & D because they are different colour variations -we know Lesney liked green plastic with yellow paint from the #4 stake truck - perhaps a 3rd version with gray hose was also made and will turn up one day!

I compared the models hose plastic to a poppy stem,the poppy stem is thinner,whether the modern poppys are the same size has from the late sixties i couldn,t say ,in my hand the model does feel "right",and i am pleased with the other model,the tail gate shuts lovely and that gold tint on the base ,all adds to the interest lol.
dave

Very interesting pieces u have here Dave.If it feels right then it is right and im sure almost every member on here would love to have these specimens in their collections anyway
Enjoy.
numi

numi wrote:Very interesting pieces u have here Dave.If it feels right then it is right and im sure almost every member on here would love to have these specimens in their collections anyway
Enjoy.
numi

Thank you