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Hi Tj & Idris,these were my initial thoughts on Graham as well although he is a general toy collector/seller.I am no large-toy collector by any means like yourselves and my intentions were actually to find out if Graham knew/knows more about these blue barrels than most do hence my quote with no defamation or damage intended: My interest is why would Graham want to pass this as a pre-pro or as any alternative coupled to a #51 JD Trailer boxed set.

My thoughts were perhaps these slightly used much paler blue specimens he sold were previously tied to a 3-in-a-row type of sprue and so expected someone to come up some/such clarity/confirmation and whether the sprue notches were previously inspected.Undoubtedly Graham is a fair man and one of our best sellers around,a favorite amongst us all and always puts things right.
I now tend to believe that these blue barrels pictured here on the truck-pic posted by Idris came from a very limited run.
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As I stated earlier, you have myself, a fifty year regular wheel collector, Tinman, a very worldly internet expert on the Lesney 1-75 series, and then also Jim G., a remarkable man with a world class collection, all not being able to shed any light on these blue barrels or their origins or use. Again, the combined knowledge of our Forum, together with some Great detective work and a pretty clever theory by Idris has solved another mystery in a matter of days, not decades. God bless Wolfie, who I am sure was most knowledgeable on these odd blue barrels shown in that Vectis photo.
We had a severe storm in mid-state N.Y. which put our computer server out of service for the last 30 hours, so you can imagine my surprise this A.M. to find all these additional Posts after the last I was able to leave Thursday A.M. Great Job everyone!.........kwakers