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ChFalkensteiner Oct-03-01 |
Last weekend I came across a variation I had not noticed before on the F type boxes of the 9d Boat & Trailer. The earlier box with "A LESNEY PRODUCT" exists in two different sizes. I had not been aware of the narrower type before, and I only noticed it because the dealer selling it had both variations side by side. |
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ChFalkensteiner Oct-04-01 |
Over the whole period from 1953 to 1982, there are only seven different box sizes in total, and from the F type onward only three of them were still in use - three different widths. These two are the intermediate and wide types. Actually, even the (Superfast) G type boxes for this model come in the same two sizes, which I had known before. Therefore it is surprising that they made the same modification twice. I do not know the reason either. The narrower boxes are just wide enough for the model, but it can "breathe more freely" in the wider ones. |
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