I found a pair of Minic toys...

A few years ago, I had to sell many models from my collection, as a matter of fact, there's not much remaining of the models there's nothing left from the articles published before 2018 but the Birk yellow Bus I had the chance to buy back a few years after I had sold it.

Flared Wings V/S Rounded Wings

The two main books about Minic are quiet confusing about the first and second series. Sue Richardson in her 1981 self published book writes that flared wings came first but in his book "The Minic book" published by New Cavendish in 1987, Peter Bartok claims that rounded wings came first.

So basically, one of the two authors was wrong about that question but which one ?

Minic 34M : Open tourer with passengers

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.