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Tinman wrote:Is it Lesney or a later casting?

It is from Lesney and only made in England from 1985 to 1988, Macau from 1988 to 1989 and then China from 1989 to 1996.

It is scaled at 1/40 (why not 1/43 I'll never understand!) and does come under the Models of Yesteryear umbrella as number Y-2 but has no ancestry or production connections to the earlier Y-5 models.

Ghosthunter.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:

Tinman wrote:Is it Lesney or a later casting?

It is from Lesney and only made in England from 1985 to 1988, Macau from 1988 to 1989 and then China from 1989 to 1996.

It is scaled at 1/40 (why not 1/43 I'll never understand!) and does come under the Models of Yesteryear umbrella as number Y-2 but has no ancestry or production connections to the earlier Y-5 models.

Ghosthunter.

Was this designed prior to the collapse of Lesney or after the Universal take over?

It has the (often sad) progression to a larger and larger model with increasing plastic components. It's still a nice model and I do like some of the additional details.

Prototypes were all plastic, and very light. First runs were all black. These were made externally by Rayleigh Technical Design (RTD), A company set up by redundant ex Lesney employees.

Tinman wrote:Was this designed prior to the collapse of Lesney or after the Universal take over

Lesney went into riecership across the 1981-82 period putting the Matchbox brand as well as Lesney's tooling into the ownership of Universal Holdings/Universal Toys.

Ghosthunter.

Absolutely love that color, on that model. Love at first sight.

pretty one