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Authentic Trade Mark (ATM)10: 1947 Citroen Type 'H' Michelin
1. Blue bonnet/yellow & blue body/yellow roof/black base/China/yellow wheels/Michelin figure on bumper.
2. Blue bonnet/yellow & blue body/blue roof/yellow base/China/yellow wheels/Michelin figure on bumper.
3. Yellow bonnet/yellow body/blue roof/blue base/China/blue wheels/Michelin figure on radiator grill.

Hi Charlie,
I've also got 3 of these, picked up over the past few years. I've found them to be very expensive, even on Vectis.

Superficially two of mine look the same but there's a couple of differences. Here's the original model in my collection, part of a lot from Australia. I won two additional models in the Autumn of 2019 both with the Michelin Man is on the bumper. My original version with the man on the grille has a YTF3 baseplate with a second type body casting, the arrows pointing to the cast button catches for the spare wheel panel.

For those that aren't familiar with the Taste of France series of Citroen H vans produced by Tyco under the Matchbox Collectibles banner, there's a number of casting variations. Tyco were obviously aware that Yesteryear collectors sought out variations in wheels, baseplates, plastic components and colour schemes, so these alterations were introduced deliberately as a device to increase sales. With each new release from YTF02-YTF06 an incremental change was made to the bodywork. In theory any of these variations could be found on an ATM 10 MICHELIN van.

Hi Francipe,

I am not surprised that you found different body castings. I will be going through more boxes in storage soon as my notes indicate that
I may have more variations. Here are the ones that I have documented not counting the types of body casting:
1. yellow body/blue roof/blue wheels/man on bumper 1 of 80
2. yellow body/blue roof/blue wheels/man on radiator 1 of 80
3. blue lower/yellow upper/blue roof/yellow wheels/man on bumper 1 of 14
4. blue lower/yellow upper/yellow roof/yellow wheels/man on bumper 1 of 14