I think the only way to see a Shell petrol can on the running board of a flared wing is to find a 34M Open Tourer with passengers. Indeed, on all other cars I've seen with flared wings, there was no can. It may partially be explained by the fact that most of them might be from the first series (1935-1936). As the tin petrol can appeared on the 2nd series as well as the rounded wings, it could easily be said that the matrix wouldn't allow to set a can on the flared wings unlike the rounded ones. But it can sometimes be seen on the flared wing (currently the left one) of a 34M. So what ! It sounds like another Minic confusing story, isn't it ?
Passengers were hollow-casts made of lead by Taylor & Barrett, original figures have a piece of casting to slot them into the drilled holes of the wooden seats and are much lighter than the full cast white metal replicas.
Wings were more often painted on that model rather than chrome plated, which leads to several very attractive colour combinations like this one.
On the picture below one can easily make the difference between the 34M (drilled holes) and the 8M.
Trees was an English Acid Folk band from the early seventies, The Garden of Jane Delawney is a creepy psychedelic with middle-age roots included on their first album. In France the song wzas covered by Françoise Hardy (!)
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