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Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 5:47 pm
I cannot find any unlisted variations in:
- NAMC’s “Catalog of all Series Matchbox Models” (first edition),
- AIM “1-75 Series Regular Wheels” catalogue (second printing, 1983),
- Houghton’s “Definitive Guide to Matchbox Toys” (2007), or
- Stannard.
The U.K. Matchbox analysis (Vol. 3, no. 11, Jan 1980, p210) is rather below par, with different base colours being acknowledged but then frustratingly dismissed as mere shades. However, there does seem to be one variation (no. 7) not captured by Nick. This is listed as a silver-bodied SPW example with thick hatch supports and the original (i.e. non-rivetted) base (presumably square foot). The wheels are notes as "knobbly", which seems to mean either 9 x 20 or (more likely) 9 x 24. This would slot into Nick's variation table between codes 18 and 19.
- NAMC’s “Catalog of all Series Matchbox Models” (first edition),
- AIM “1-75 Series Regular Wheels” catalogue (second printing, 1983),
- Houghton’s “Definitive Guide to Matchbox Toys” (2007), or
- Stannard.
The U.K. Matchbox analysis (Vol. 3, no. 11, Jan 1980, p210) is rather below par, with different base colours being acknowledged but then frustratingly dismissed as mere shades. However, there does seem to be one variation (no. 7) not captured by Nick. This is listed as a silver-bodied SPW example with thick hatch supports and the original (i.e. non-rivetted) base (presumably square foot). The wheels are notes as "knobbly", which seems to mean either 9 x 20 or (more likely) 9 x 24. This would slot into Nick's variation table between codes 18 and 19.