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Quite busy at Cirencester today, with a fair amount of Matchbox and a few new stallholders. Trains seemed to be selling well! I found a few nice things:

The Benbros Hudson Tourer in an unlisted colour (dark red with the type 2 base and large unpainted metal wheels):
There's a big chunk of metal missing from the roof and it needs a good clean, but it's a good find anyway.

The other good find is the Superfast 60 Leyland site hut lorry. Here's why:
It's the crossover variant with the later body on the earlier base. Jason showed one back in 2013 but I don't think I've seen any others, though there's a nice picture on Christian's site.

hi, i picked up that site truck and looked at it, and the zephyr, both clean models but i had a lot of superfast off him ,nothing special just minty so as i have one put it back, was not a bad show , no ideal how twekesbury went

Nice finds, especially the Site truck

Rob

Just compared my Site Truck and noticed that the “Pat. App” is the other way round ( upside down).
Does this make it another variation?





Rod

The two different Blues, and the two different bases.

George T.

kerbside wrote:The two different Blues, and the two different bases.

Thanks, George: that picture shows the colours really well.

Viewfield wrote:Just compared my Site Truck and noticed that the “Pat. App” is the other way round ( upside down).
Does this make it another variation?

Christian has the two versions of PAT APP on his site here. I think it's just an example of paired moulds, like on the 58 DAF and the 26 GMC tipper. Both of these are numbered either 1 or 2.

DrJeep wrote: Christian has the two versions of PAT APP on his site here. I think it's just an example of paired moulds, like on the 58 DAF and the 26 GMC tipper. Both of these are numbered either 1 or 2.

Correct. So in my cataloguing terminology, it is a sub-variation. A bit more obvious than most of the others, but basically the same thing.