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<p>[QUOTE="Number 47, post: 903327, member: 10867"]I just love them, they are 6" high, 13" long and 7" wide. So a respectable size and as a pair they look great in my living room atop a bookcase. The wheels are on axles and the front doors open. I know nothing about them as they have no marks, they are made of pine. Hand made, I can find nothing online suggesting they were manufactured in numbers so I'm guessing scratch built. No idea of date but they do have flathead screws holding the axle carriers which I doubt would be used by choice in the last 30-40 years. I believe they are some semblance to Model A delivery vans. The signage is hand painted as is the suggestion of back doors. Therein lies my lack of any real useful information and hours of googling has turned up nothing. (Except one US company that creates bespoke objects similar for advertising campaigns, which is a possibility)</p><p><br /></p><p>That's it really, I guess what makes them so great was the price. £40 would not buy much here in the UK that I could put atop my bookcase, never mind a pair. Given the other items that came in the lot are going to resale for a few hundred pounds I am positively beaming with my find.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Number 47, post: 903327, member: 10867"]I just love them, they are 6" high, 13" long and 7" wide. So a respectable size and as a pair they look great in my living room atop a bookcase. The wheels are on axles and the front doors open. I know nothing about them as they have no marks, they are made of pine. Hand made, I can find nothing online suggesting they were manufactured in numbers so I'm guessing scratch built. No idea of date but they do have flathead screws holding the axle carriers which I doubt would be used by choice in the last 30-40 years. I believe they are some semblance to Model A delivery vans. The signage is hand painted as is the suggestion of back doors. Therein lies my lack of any real useful information and hours of googling has turned up nothing. (Except one US company that creates bespoke objects similar for advertising campaigns, which is a possibility) That's it really, I guess what makes them so great was the price. £40 would not buy much here in the UK that I could put atop my bookcase, never mind a pair. Given the other items that came in the lot are going to resale for a few hundred pounds I am positively beaming with my find.[/QUOTE]
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