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Authentic Trade Mark (ATM) 23: 1912 Ford Model "T" Tanker "Fina Fuel & Oil"
1. Model "T" Tanker/Blue cab/black roof/white tank/black base/Lesney England/24 spoke blue wheels/pinky-tan seat.
2. Model "T" Tanker/Red cab/black roof/white tank/black base/Lesney England/12 spoke gold wheels/black seat.
3. Model "T" Tanker/Red cab/black roof/white tank/black base/Lesney England/12 spoke red wheels/black seat.
4. Mack AC Tanker/Black cab/red roof/red chassis/white tank/black base/China/tan seat.

I've got three of these, a Ford Model T tanker in red and white matching Charlie's with the gold wheels and the blue model. The third uses the Red Crown Special Limited Edition as the donor model. As can be seen the Red Crown Special Limited Edition has a different cab roof to the standard Y3 releases and side boards on the tank. This ATM-23 was a release of only 10 (2 of which had red wheels). Here's my fleet 3 models.

These ATM-23 Fina Fuels and Oil models were only produced in small numbers. The Mack AC was 1/6, the Y3 with the black roof 1/2 with red wheels and gold wheels 1/17.
The blue model is 1/19 and a rather oddball model. I thought it might have used the Dairy Milk release as a donor model but it's a different shade of blue which seems an unnecessary expense but that's the elite clique for you. The blue 24 spoke plastic wheels were only used on the late '80s blue and silver Y4 Duesenbergs and the 1985 white and blue Auburn so there must have been 20 or so models sitting around on piles of bricks. Probably made in Liverpool.
One anomaly is the Fina logo on the back of the tank, which is different to that on the cab doors.
The other is that Horace Dunkley had the complete set of 6 and Joe Recchia apparently none, as none were available in his Vectis auctions.

Toys for the selected boys.

francipe wrote: The blue model is 1/19 and a rather oddball model. I thought it might have used the Dairy Milk release as a donor model but it's a different shade of blue which seems an unnecessary expense but that's the elite clique for you. The blue 24 spoke plastic wheels were only used on the late '80s blue and silver Y4 Duesenbergs and the 1985 white and blue Auburn so there must have been 20 or so models sitting around on piles of bricks. Probably made in Liverpool.
One anomaly is the Fina logo on the back of the tank, which is different to that on the cab doors.
The other is that Horace Dunkley had the complete set of 6 and Joe Recchia apparently none, as none were available in his Vectis auctions.

Here's the photo that I took yesterday when the sun finally made an appearance. The Express Milk model is a much lighter shade of blue.

YYS4BOB wrote:Toys for the selected boys.

Exactly so Bob but I found it strange that either Joe didn't have the other 1/2 variant or it wasn't in the sale.