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MIB Variations I'm Currently Seeking
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1A Diesel Road Roller:
- 1 dark green
- 2 light green
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1B Road Roller:
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1C Road Roller
- 1 light green
- 2 dark green
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1D Aveling Barford Road Roller :
- 1 Dark green, red plastic rollers
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2A Site Tipper:
- 1 green painted mw
- 2 unpainted mw
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2C Muir Hill Dumper:
- 1 "Laing" decals
- 2 "Muir Hill" decals
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- 2 yellow canopy (Superfast era)
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3B Bedford Tipper:
- 1 maroon dump, ktbpw
- 2 red dump, gpw
- 3 maroon dump, bpw
- 4 red dump, bpw
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3C Mercedes Benz Binz Ambulance:
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- 2 off-white w/labels
- 3 cream w/decals
- 4 cream w/labels
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4A and B Massey Harris Tractor:
- A1 fenders, mw
- B1 no fenders, mw
- B2 no fenders, gpw
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4C Triumph Motorcycle & Sidecar:
- 1 silver blue
- 2 dark silver blue
- Fake Copper Triumph (laboratory tested)
- Unlisted silver blue with 1 Harley wheel on sidecar
Be on the look out for fake copper triumphs, they are frequently listed on a popular online auction site. There is
only one legitimate model that I am aware of and that sits in a collection in Germany.
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- 1 blue-green stakes
- 2 green stakes
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5A London Bus:
- 1 "Buy Matchbox" labels, mw
The green 5A pictured belongs to a fellow collector. We have validated this model's authenticity through laboratory
analysis of the paint that removed any doubt regarding it's legitimacy. So far only two of these have been identified,
both discovered by the same individual in Australia.
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5B London Bus:
- 1 "Buy Matchbox" decals, gold trim, mw
- 2 "Buy Mathcbox" decals, gold or silver trim, gpw
- 3 "Players Please" decals, silver trim, gpw
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- 4 "Visco Static" decals, silver trim, gpw
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5C Routemaster Bus:
- 1 "Players Please" decals, gpw
- 2 "Visco Static" decals, gpw
- 3 "Drink Peardrax" decals, gpw
- 4 "Drink Peardrax" decals, bpw
- 7 "Visco Static" decals, bpw
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- 5 gpw "Baron of Beef " decals
- 6 bpw "Baron of Beef" decals
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5D London Bus:
- 1 "Longlife" decals, bpw
- 3 "Visco Static" labels, bpw
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- 2 "Visco Static" decals
- 4 "Barron of Beef" decals
- 5 "Pegram Shopfitters" decals
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6A Quarry Truck:
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6B Quarry Truck:
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6C Euclid Quarry Truck:
- 1 recessed rear tires
- 2 solid rear tires
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6A1, 6B2 Quarry Truck, 6C1, 6C2 Euclid Quarry Truck
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Ford Pickup Truck:
- 1 white grille
- 2 silver grille
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7A Horse Drawn Milk Float:
- 2 white bottle load, mw
- 3 white bottle load (all orange driver), gpw
- Unlisted silver bottle load, gpw
Note the pale orange color of the gpw version. Stannard mentions a pale orange for a mw version.
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- 1 mw, silver bottle load (most likely this is a typo and should have listed the gpw silver bottle version instead)
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7B Ford Anglia:
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7C Ford Refuse Truck:
- 1 orange cab, metal loader, gp dumper
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8A Caterpillar Tractor:
- 1 orange body & driver
- 2 light yellow body, yellow driver, metal rollers
- 3 dark yellow body, yellow driver, metal rollers
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8B Caterpillar Tractor:
- 1 yellow, metal rollers, yellow driver
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8C Caterpillar Tractor:
- 1 yellow, metal rollers
- 3 black plastic rollers
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8B and 8C Caterpillar Tractor size comparison
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8D Caterpillar Tractor:
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- 1 yellow body, bp rollers
- 2 yellow-orange body, bp rollers
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8E Ford Mustang:
- 1 white body, red interior
Silver/chrome wheels: Silver hub with bpt visible when viewed from undercarriage
Silver/chrome hubs: Black plastic wheel with a chrome hub cap looks solid black when viewed from under carriage
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- 2 orange body, red interior
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9A Dennis Fire Escape:
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9B Dennis Fire Escape:
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9C Merryweather Marquis Fire Engine:
- 1 tan ladder, gpw
- 3 gold ladder, bpw
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- 2 gpw gold ladder
- 4 bpw silver ladder
- 5 bpw tan ladder
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9D Boat and Trailer:
- 1 dull-blue deck
- 2 bright blue deck
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10A Mechanical Horse & Trailer:
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10B Mechanical Horse & Trailer:
- 1 red cab, light tan trailer, gold grille, mw
- 2 red cab, dark tan trailer, silver grille, gpw
- 3 red cab, dark tan trailer, gold grille, gpw
NOTE: 10B1 has a gold grille, not silver. This is a typo in Charlie Mack's book.
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10C Sugar Container Truck:
- 1 Crown decal, gpw
- 2 no crown, gpw
- 4 no crown, bpw
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10D Pipe Truck:
- 1 silver grille, bpw
- 2 white grille, bpw
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- 2 white grille, bpw (Mint)
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