Getting more and more OT-Ford Anglia - was Re: UK merchandise?

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--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Nick Mitchell" <nick at d...> wrote:
> > 
> Is there a difference between the 1940 and 1960 model... I didn't 
know.
> Hey, the difference probably isn't that great.   I wonder if the
> manufacturer of the mug would do us a 1960 model version.
> 
> >At one point, some may recall, I was pursuing diecast models of 
Ford
> >Anglias, but I ran out of time and energy. 


The 1940's version was built up until 1953; it's very much a prewar 
car, separate fenders with sticking-up headlights, etc.
 The only model of it for a long time was a Revell plastic kit (#85-
4169) that depicts a heavily modified drag racer. Believe me, it 
takes a LOT of work to turn it into a stock one! There is now a 1:18 
diecast from Eagle Race (I think).


The Weasley Anglia is of the 105E series (1960-67); it was a 
completely new car, new engine, Ford's first 4-speed car transmission 
(anywhere!), new body. Theirs looks like a Deluxe, the higher (and 
more popular) of two trims until 1962, when the bigger-engined Super 
was added. Production ended in 1967. 
The only models I know of are 1) a 1960s Matchbox; and 2) a 1/43 
scale, current one from Lledo. I'd love to see one in 1/24 scale, 
especially as a plastic kit! (styrene bodies are so much more 
detailed than diecast)

Did you know
- The introductory ad for the Anglia in the U.S. market used a circus 
theme, including someone in a lion costume?

-Some sources call this type of Anglia a "1959" model, despite having 
been introduced at the London Motor Show in Oct. 1959. This occurs 
also with the Mini and Triumph Herald (also Oct. '59) and the Jag 
XK120 and Morris Minor (Oct. '48)
 As the American "next-year's-model-rolled-out-in-fall" practice was 
followed when these cars were exported to the U.S., one gets the 
impression that there was commonly a one-year delay between British 
cars' UK and export launches. Not so! (Although this is now a common 
practice of the Japanese)