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Is this original model

These labels have never seen.

Suspect it has been customised - wheels and axles don't look original either. Hopefully someone with more experience will tell you for sure.

Ewan wrote:Suspect it has been customised - wheels and axles don't look original either. Hopefully someone with more experience will tell you for sure.

I can only agree with Ewan.
Antonin

Certainly the axles look a bit thin, and I do not recognise the wheel pattern as being a Lesney standard type, so my immediate reaction is to agree with Ewan and Antonin, but why would anyone take such a clean model, remove the roof cross, apply fresh decals and then rewheel it?
I think that it is almost certainly a modified model, but I'd like to make certain.
Mike, could we please have a better photograph of one of the wheels, close-ups of both ends of an axle, and a good shot of the roof where the cross should be? If you have vernier calipers, could you also please compare the axle diameter on this model to that on another, standard 14a/b and let us know the results?

Idris wrote:Certainly the axles look a bit thin, and I do not recognise the wheel pattern as being a Lesney standard type, so my immediate reaction is to agree with Ewan and Antonin, but why would anyone take such a clean model, remove the roof cross, apply fresh decals and then rewheel it?
I think that it is almost certainly a modified model, but I'd like to make certain.
Mike, could we please have a better photograph of one of the wheels, close-ups of both ends of an axle, and a good shot of the roof where the cross should be? If you have vernier calipers, could you also please compare the axle diameter on this model to that on another, standard 14a/b and let us know the results?

Hello Idris.
Not yet in my hand.
I found this model on the internet.
EUR 50.00 think about to buy.

The big question:
Buy with risk?
Please order your opinion.

It is not original Mike, Save your 50 euros for a real one.

I agree with Nick. The chances of it being genuine are so small that it's not worth taking the chance for €50.

My opinion is; 50 Euro is a complete waste of money for this model.

Thank you friends.
A good tip. Better to buy a new model Vitrine.
For the many models in the old shoe box.