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FREE MATCHBOX CLASSIC CAR OFFER on a matchbox

Somewhile ago I won this on Ebay USA.
It is a small matchboxbox with a promotion offer for a MATCHBOX !
I didn't see it before.
The offer expired oct 31rd 1985.
You had to collect 18 ! match box sleeves from boxes of Ship, Winners or other J. John Masters brands and you had to sent these together with your name, address, and choice of car to the following address in the UK FREE CLASSIC CAR OFFER , PO. Box 7, 107 High Street, Brentford, Middlesex.
You could choose from a Jaguar SS100, the Citroen 15, the Ford Model A and the Jaguar XK120, all classic car models.





As you can see the model depicted on the front of the box is the MB73-C Ford Model A and I do no know if boxes with iether one of the Jaguars or the Citroen also exist?

The box measures 53mmx36mmx18mm.

Any members here have more info on it?
Ghosthunter?

marcel

That's really cool Marcel! Thanks for sharing this.

I am sorry, I can not really add anything about this specific promotion, all you may be interested in, is the name of J.John Masters were a match manufacturer for the UK markets using matches imported from Sweden (as virtually all wooden matches used in the UK were!), so MADE IN SWEDEN actually means the wooden matches come from Sweden but the box is printed and made in England.

I have not seen these before and do not remember it from this period, mid 1980's, so I do not know if the other models took it in turn to be featured on the box in the same way as the Model 'A' Ford.

It is of course one of many minor promotions undertaken by Matchbox through the Seventies and Eighties and it will require the finding of some magazine media to see adverts of the promotion and I would imagine adverts would have been printed in Boys Comics of the time.

GHOSTHUNTER.