It is a little over a Week since my dear beloved Dad passed away. It is still very difficult as I sort through His property, but I find myself now talking to Him as if he were still sitting in His chair. Something I asked Him to do, was to now guide and help me with what I do for the rest of my natural life.
It seems he is quite Happy to do this and the Three models below came through the front door from ebay at silly low prices, but each one is special.
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Model above. Y-6 issue 3, (In the MICA White book), without the side label positioning 'Pips'. It was found the Lady operators placing the 'Borough Green & District' sticky labels could not get them all in the same place or were placed on the model slightly slanting. a quick solution was to cast a little guide ridge to help with the positioning, so these early versions without the guide 'Pips' are more collectible than the versions with the 'Pips'. This was under £10. I think this is my 5th or 6th example.
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Model above. Y-15 with un-plated (Silver-Grey), 'Generic' wheel rims and a hole in the rear base boss. The Rolls-Royce with these wheels is very hard to find and when they do turn up, they usually have 'Brass' plated wheel rims.
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Model above. Y-6 in the very 1st issue 'Straw' box with the small 'Y-6' on the end-flaps. Very soon after the 'Straw' box was introduced, the model's 'Y' number on each end-flap was larger and in the case of the Rolls-Royce models, a registration script was added to the 7 lines of text on the rear of the header.
As soon as I saw the Y-15 with un-plated wheels I knew it was different to the model I already had and shown on the forum elsewhere. The colour shade is lighter and there is a Lesney instigated hole in the rear base boss, that is missing from my other model.
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My 1st example is on the left in these pictures.
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So thank you Dad for guiding these special models my way.
Ghosthunter.
