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I spy with my little Eye...Three original coloured models...

...this really was a missed opportunity for Lesney, why did they not do more colours on this model, look how good they look in Gerrit's picture. If the model was in production for a short period you can perhaps understand, but it was in production for a long period, 1958 to 1964, plenty of time for them to find a few more colours...!

GHOSTHUNTER.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:...this really was a missed opportunity for Lesney, why did they not do more colours on this model...

Lesney's whole obsession with standardised products was a missed opportunity. I really cannot understand what the objection was to producing the same model in different colours. I always like to think that the cream, green, and red versions of the 74b Daimler Bus representeded a tentative exploration of the results of changing models colour mid-production on sales. However, the advent of Hot Wheels and the rapid introduction of Superfast rendered the results of that marketing study (if it actually was one) purely acadamic.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:I spy with my little Eye...Three original coloured models...

...this really was a missed opportunity for Lesney, why did they not do more colours on this model, look how good they look in Gerrit's picture. If the model was in production for a short period you can perhaps understand, but it was in production for a long period, 1958 to 1964, plenty of time for them to find a few more colours...!

GHOSTHUNTER.

Your eye sight is like a hawk Kevin, three originals there.
For sure, Lesney could have done more color variations on many of their models, but that did not happen.

In order to correct that omission I am crusading for more color horizons on Lesney models, a mere 50 years later.
One small step for a man, a giant leap for Matchbox collectors............... (old wise Chinese saying)

...but are old wise Chinese Men collecting Matchbox anymore...

Ghosty.

I do agree. It's a pitty they didn't make many colors. The gold one looks really great. What a toy this could have been !

Fox wrote:I do agree. It's a pitty they didn't make many colors. The gold one looks really great. What a toy this could have been !

The gold one has a peculiar rear bumper, it is made from a paperclip.
The rear section of the base plate is broken off, up to the rivet, that's why.