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46B with hubs
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:02 am
by tractorboy
Just in case any of you missed this rare model that recently came up for auction
"Matchbox Lesney Pickfords Removal Van with regular wheels on hubs HARDTOFIND"
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It must be a pre-pro as no matching Lesney model has such small hubs …...
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Just a light clean of the hubs to check tyre detail and all is revealed ……..
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Someone had a very good eye and a fine brush all those years ago to provide such detail.
Re: 46B with hubs
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:16 pm
by nickjones
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't one of the 46b box illustrations show a model with plastic tyres on metal hubs.
Re: 46B with hubs
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:52 pm
by Diecast
Sorry, but I can only see a dirty BPW ø9x24 on corroded axis.
Antonin
Re: 46B with hubs
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 7:38 pm
by tractorboy
Diecast wrote:Sorry, but I can only see a dirty BPW ø9x24 on corroded axis.
Antonin
Spot on Antonin - the wheels around the hub had been finely detailed to represent hubs on both sides of the wheels.
Very carefully done and from the paint condition quite a while ago.
Cleaning the wheel removed the old paint to reveal as you say 9x24 wheels.
It was exciting for a few minutes when the box was opened
Re: 46B with hubs
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:43 pm
by Ewan
I've just had a similar experience - "12 Lesney Matchbox trucks - all Regular Wheel models(except one)". Well I could see the Superfast Faun crane, so what was the orangey-red pipe truck at the back of the photo with black wheels? It was as I guessed a Superfast with all the foil gone from the wheels, but you just never know! I've also managed to buy a couple of red SF Ferrari Berlinettas that just about looked as if they might be hubbed RW models. It's all part of the fun
Re: 46B with hubs
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:57 pm
by johnboy
Ewan wrote:I've just had a similar experience - "12 Lesney Matchbox trucks - all Regular Wheel models(except one)". Well I could see the Superfast Faun crane, so what was the orangey-red pipe truck at the back of the photo with black wheels? It was as I guessed a Superfast with all the foil gone from the wheels, but you just never know! I've also managed to buy a couple of red SF Ferrari Berlinettas that just about looked as if they might be hubbed RW models. It's all part of the fun
It all sounds very familiar Ewan
