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Look what I just got - 20a ERF truck - the ugly one ...

Code 3: maroon body, hand applied silver trim, GMW, with brace
... with a factory mould problem: the body of the truck is ok, this ugly additional metal cast mass is a factory error - is it the rest of an unhappy spare wheel casting try?

Look at the ugly one:
Brgds, Andreas

That's a nice oops Andreas. Whoever crimped the axles had a chance to reject the model but chose not to

Do you think someone crimped the axles outside the factory? I am not sure .... please be aware that the crimp on the front axle was not so easy done - the wheel does not fit into the wheelhouse, it is outside - so maybee the crimp process was quite complicate ... also there is lack of colour in the Drivers cab under the Roof and beetween the cab and the load bed - so I am not sure if this model was repainted outside the factory, I bought it with the original box. The crimp on the rear axle seems to me original ...

It is an unusual one. Only guessing here, but I would say that it was painted and assembled in the factory and the crimping has been hindered because the amount of axle left to work with has been reduced due to that extra metal or it wasn't sitting squarlely. Resetting a machine for one model would never have been an option and I think the crimping would have been done so quickly as part of a large batch that perhaps the operator probably saw the problem but just did the minimum to get the model finished before moving on to the next one.

It was not the job of the operators to reject models at the work stations unless it was so plainly obvious there was something wrong. Remember these workers were not briefed on what the models are supposed to look like, they get shown how to place the parts together by the works foreman or charge hand in the jigs, so as long as something comes along on the conveyor belt resembling something they had just put together, they did not question it, this particular example had been through the painting process, so as far as the operator was concerned it must be OK, so She has tried to do her bit by fitting axle/wheel combinations to the model and passed it on to the next stage, assuming that if it was not a good model it would be rejected by the packers.

It does seem inconceivable that it would pass any quality check and actually get put into a box, but every stage of manufacture of these models was by Human intervention and oddities like this do get through un-noticed by every body!

A nice factory OOPS!

Ghosthunter.