AMAZING OLD LESNEY FACTORY VIDEO

[motorman]

Found this online. Doesn't appear to have any sound but very interesting images of the Factory at work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoxWh6lU ... fphhPbDokH

[tractorboy]

Great video - when I viewed these came up alongside:

"How Deep is Your Lesney"
Some rare models featured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_T5JsN ... fphhPbDokH

MokoLesney video Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OFd-gM ... fphhPbDokH

MokoLesney video Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtJoQa3 ... kH&index=6

Great videos

[gpwcollector]

motorman Very nice video, thanks for sharing. Looks like most of the workers back then were lady's...wounder how many of them put a few of those's little toy's in there purses and took them home for there kids

tractorboy, in the first video you see all those HTF models...great video thanks for sharing

[kwakers]

The references to the Chester Toy Museum are also very interesting in the MokoLesney videos MM. The GPW Orange color trial 69A Nestle Van, as well as the 47 pre-pro Ice Cream Truck with it's brown interior and no decals were both new to me. It is very nice to see what undocumented Lesneys are still to be discovered by us in 2014.
The Lesney factory video is one I think Nick may not have at his site yet. They are always of Great interest because we can see what kind of volume Lesney was working with every day during their stock model production.
Thanks for the link to all this series of Matchbox videos. They all have bits of fascinating new information and views for us. kwakers

[kay]

I thought I have seen this before, and it has been advertised for sale somewhere - so I started digging in my Matchbox paper items. Found it in the old MICA magazines!
This video about the Regular Wheels range has officailly been released in 1992 as a VHS tape named "Matchbox Series 1:75 - The Pocket Money Toys" by UB90 (author was David Baxter). It has been on offer via MICA, as it mainly covers models from the former Chester Toy Museum collection.
There have been two further VHS Videos about Models of Yesteryear ("The First Series" and "The Rare Ones"), as well as three videos about Corgi Toys models

Kay

[radar]

Not Lesney, but...
...my Grandfather was a home movie enthusiast. STANDARD 8 mm if any of you can specify the difference between that and SUPER 8 mm - Google if you wish.
Anyway he has my father and uncle in wartime Melbourne - not Korean/Vietnam/Iraq/Afghan wars - with working models of their Meccanno trucks and cranes and clockwork power drives. Sadly all now died. This is in BW - but incredibly we have colour film be took when they lived before the war in Perth West Australia - most isolated city in the world.
He also took the movie camera into Palestine where he served and captured movie film.

I've had it all put on DVD.

[gpwcollector]

Hi all, the one thing I noticed in these videos is the guy does not mention any thing about the to line green Picksford, but he does mention that the No.30 Magirus Crane truck did come with ether a red boom or a orange boom.thanks again motorman and tractorboy for sharing

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Hello Alex.

These are good and I have seen them before, but what I like is the use of the Silver Shadow saloon, #24c especially the coloured film from American TV and I have done some 'screen grabs' highlighting this. I have also singled out Mr Ken Wetton with a cabinet containing lots of 'pre-pro' type models etc.

Ghosty.

[kwakers]

I noticed the same missing reference to the green two line Pickfords also GPW, but when they have all been found in the U.S., we may not be able to rule out a factory shipment sent out with those promotional decals still left from the Pickford's run. I did notice they also missed the early 26A without the barrel stem, and threw in a 'rare' 27A Low Loader Trailer (only?) with silver plastic wheels on it. I thought I would give the video a day or two to raise some Forum comments from others. Thank You Kay for the year of recording, and also the source and 'editor' of the other videos. It would be very interesting to know if collectors in that Club had added comments or possibly had additions and details on certain rare models discussed. The models pictured were certainly of high quality if they were all in the Museum, and they must have gone on to other collections at some point since the videos were done (?). kwakers
It is nice to know that is Ken Wetton in the video with all those blurry pre-pro models. SCM may have mentioned him specifcally, but I had never heard of him before. He appears to have had quite the personal collection on display there, so now we know where some of the U.S. collectors that visited the factory may have gotten a 'special or two' to bring back to their American collections. Where are they all now?.....kwakers

[motorman]

Ghosty Thanks for using your Technical wizardry to add those images.

I would just love to be able to go back in time to see that cabinet full of prepro models