Here is my early milk delivery vehicles, from the good old days when milk was delivered on a daily basis, to your door, in nice bottles :)

Karl-E. Denmark

7A:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j216/karl-e/07A-1.jpg
29A:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j216/karl-e/29A.jpg
21C:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j216/karl-e/21C.jpg

I like the sw Commer!

ooo i hope they make a new one 0w0

Those old Grey Wheels...Maybe the toughest Die Cast Wheel ever made.

I think i might have to collect a different type of "dairy Delivery" now!!!! thanks for the pics!!!

very nice,:thumbsup: there was something good about the taste of milk in glass bottles.:)

thanks for all of your nice pictures and thanks to everybody who posts. it’s a good group of people discussing matchbox.:)

here is my little fleet of 21-3’s
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/944/milktruck213grp1zk8.jpg

very nice,:thumbsup: there was something good about the taste of milk in glass bottles.:)

thanks for all of your nice pictures and thanks to everybody who posts. it’s a good group of people discussing matchbox.:)

here is my little fleet of 21-3’s
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/944/milktruck213grp1zk8.jpg
Very nice boxes:thumbsup:

I think all drinks taste better in bottles, especially beer:dude:.There is something about aluminum,plastic & waxed card - maybe something migrates from the package to the product, I dont know, but nothing gives a cleaner taste experience to me than glass (unless its china for tea/coffee)
I am surprised nobody has shown a Commer with bottles on the door , I will when my camera batteries recharge.

Those old Grey Wheels...Maybe the toughest Die Cast Wheel ever made.

I wonder how many 1950s kids chipped their teeth biting Lesney metal wheels......no wonder they switched to plastic

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Apr047.jpg
Here are mine, somewhere I have my repainted bpw example, but these 3 all have spw - the chipped one with the bottle on the door is available for trade/sale.I havent seen any gpw or clear glass or blue issues of this 21 Commer for sale, but they are out there, the harder to find versions
In the background are my Bedfords - the blue is a respray that looks nicer than the Lesney choice of cream

Mountain: Very nice and clean bunch of boxes :thumbsup:

SMS: I don't think that there exist a genuine blue version of the Commer, I think the lightblue versions is due to sunfade.

Karl-E. Denmark

sms88, nice trucks. i remember collectors bite testing the wheels to see if they were metal or plastic.:rolleyes:

karl-e, the #21-3 blue commer is an interesting topic that has been debated for a long time.
here is an early 70’s AIM question about that model. i believe the same person had the two models in question, i don’t remember it being thought of as a sun fade, more towards a pre-production, but who knows.:)
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6176/211milktruckblueou1.jpg

Mountain: I have seen two different light-blue, both showing clearly signs of sunfade, one that had the usual colour under a part where decal was missing, and another where the usual colour was on the edge below the car. However a pre-pro is not impossible but I have never seen one.

Karl-E. Denmark

Mountain: I have seen two different light-blue, both showing clearly signs of sunfade, one that had the usual colour under a part where decal was missing, and another where the usual colour was on the edge below the car. However a pre-pro is not impossible but I have never seen one.

Karl-E. Denmark
Theres a not so old thread on MCCH showing a blue one,the conclusion was that its definitely not paint fade, in fact it is contamination in the Lesney spray guns from the previous blue production of a different casting.Nick Jones has some pix and same comments on his superb site
The blue one is the very last item on the page in this link


http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.jones7317/public_html/1index/gg21c.htm

wish i had pictures of the two milk trucks in question.
some models i have seen over the years and wish i taken photographs of were the rw#12 silver land rovers that were circulating in the early 70’s, same with the 1970 rw #13-4 reverse dodge wrecker. there was one collector that had rw’s in colors that nobody had ever seen and these were made in the lesney factory, not home made models.
the white y-4 duesenberg , one of the handful that left the factory and many other interesting y’s

wish i also had some pictures of the stamp raffles with a few silver handle bar sf choppers and white ladder blaze busters, also many 70’s sf pre-productions. i know some people took photographs of the club meets and conventions.

there was a nice picture of the soap box racer in the matchbox collectors club quarterly in the 70’s and also pictured in an AIM bulletin. the bulletin showed a picture of the base with no lettering. story behind the model was it was hand made by mr. odell for his father. i’ll find the picture and post it later.

not something spectacular but just to add a little picture to the topic, a nice department store catalog picture of some white ladder blaze busters.
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/513/matchboxrescueplaycasekm2.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9315/matchboxcityplaycasegq0.jpg

Odd (or is it just the kids that had these new growing up & getting 2nd chldhoods with unlimited pocket money :hat:)how its taken 30 years with the effects of on-line chat sites and ebay to create the boom in interest and demand for prepros to a level that wasnt perhaps evident or even imaginable back in the early 1970s when these lunchbox specials were made

there was a collectors market for pre-productions/color trials in the early 70’s for rw and y’s with people that would try and rip you off, most likely on a larger scale today. as sf grew the same happened with those models.with a great deal of information about matchbox on-line, i’m sure the deceit goes hand and hand with that information..

there were the chapters of the matchbox collectors club, but that was geared towards children. when collectors began organizing in the late 60’s early 70’s there was a lot that need to be sorted out from past years. luckily there were seasoned collectors , wholesalers, hobby shop owners and lesney employees all belonging to the clubs. there was one hobby shop owner in his sixties that had owned a hobby shop for many years who provided a great deal of information about what was available as general merchandise.:)

there was a collectors market for pre-productions/color trials in the early 70’s for rw and y’s with people that would try and rip you off, most likely on a larger scale today. as sf grew the same happened with those models.with a great deal of information about matchbox on-line, i’m sure the deceit goes hand and hand with that information..

there were the chapters of the matchbox collectors club, but that was geared towards children. when collectors began organizing in the late 60’s early 70’s there was a lot that need to be sorted out from past years. luckily there were seasoned collectors , wholesalers, hobby shop owners and lesney employees all belonging to the clubs. there was one hobby shop owner in his sixties that had owned a hobby shop for many years who provided a great deal of information about what was available as general merchandise.:)
With some collectors back in the 1970s having pipelines into the factory for lunchbox specials I can see a parallel today with Malaysian & Chinese Mattel employees ebaying all sorts of oddments from the factory - and in 30 years time who will remember what is real and what is fake, or will it all be documented online for all to know in future.........and perhaps more employees of toymakers today are themselves collectors compared to 30 years ago....

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/8752/080520082500gj0.jpg
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/9044/080520082501yn6.jpg

Nice looking vans, but both are clearly restos/fakes :o
This model came to my knowledge only with decals.

Karl-E. Denmark

Nice looking vans, but both are clearly restos/fakes :o
This model came to my knowledge only with decals.

Karl-E. Denmark

A great fate for beaters, and the baby blue suits this casting really well. The metallic dark blue reminds me of the first Corgi police issue of this Commer pig van.I expect Lesney did a no30 prefect blue colour trial of this milk float but preferred green.Real english milk trucks were often white or cream combined with a bright cheerful colour -the big 3 national chains were Co-Op -white/turquoise, Express white /mid blue and Unigate orange/white -odd lesney didnt get one of them to sponser the labels for the toys....