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Can anyone help identify what these bits come off of ?

Left blade looks like its from the K8 Caterpillar Traxcavator, right blade is from the 43b Aveling Barford tractor shovel. Very nice Tim
I love these .J

Cheers J, I'm crap with Kings, as you know lol and the 43 threw me cause of the colour.

nearlymint wrote:L...right blade is from the 43b Aveling Barford tractor shovel...

The colour is very interesting, all the more so because we know from the box art that the later pre-productions and first release were in all yellow. Any obvious casting differences?

tjlglass wrote:Can anyone help identify what these bits come off of ?

nearlymint wrote:Left blade looks like its from the K8 Caterpillar Traxcavator, Very nice Tim
I love these .J

Hello Tim, Hugh and Jason,

I think the grey shovel actually belongs to the K3-b Hatra Tractor Shovel, a model I have always favoured for it moving parts engineering.

If you look on Nicks king size listing for the K8-c Traxcavator he has a pre-pro you can see the shovel is slightly different.

Here is a picture from the 1965 pocket catalogue showing your shovel on the K3-b and looks great in this colour scheme.
It is also shown with this colour scheme on the earlier box and orange on later box. K8-c pic for comparison.

I would suggest this is a K3-b pre-pro shovel or colour trial. Very nice little find.

Need to see a side view I think Yellowfoden, maybe its the same for both models.
The prepro cannot be compared as this is a later type, early one below. J

Idris wrote:

nearlymint wrote:L...right blade is from the 43b Aveling Barford tractor shovel...

The colour is very interesting, all the more so because we know from the box art that the later pre-productions and first release were in all yellow. Any obvious casting differences?

Yes the strengthening bar is half the width of the ones on Nicks variation site. Will get a pic tomoz.

Thin ridge.

Hi all and hello tjlglass!

Thats an interesting find. My first thought was that the grey one belongs to a Kingsize/Superkings caterpillar traxcavator, maybe a colour trial piece or something like that.
Good idea with the K-3 Hatra, yellowfoden, I didn't think on that one.
I just checked the Big MX colours used on the caterpillar traxcavator, but it seems that they used the standart orange shovels from the Kingsize/Superkings range.

Here are two pictures from two of my traxcavators (yellow and lemon yellow), maybe some help for a comparison.

very interesting thread.

greetings,
Linus