Showing posts with label Shell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shell. Show all posts

2015-06-15

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. 

2015-06-04

Minic 4M cabriolet : I can hear the grass grow

From the Second series introduced in 1936, this splendid cabriolet (originally miscalled town coupĂ©) in two tone green has got, on the running board, the lovely tin Shell petrol can which made these models famous.
This is a rare  colour scheme, a two tone blue exist also seen twice in auctions. The first colours given by Tri-ang where new blue with plated wings, light brown with black wings and ivory with red wings.

2015-05-04

40M Minic Mechanical horse and trailer with cases : From London to Bombay


I recently got into Minic's.
I had seen some examples at the Galerie du jouet ancien in Paris several years ago when the owner had bought a collection of pre-war models in Brittany. There were of course several Dinky toys, Tootsietoys, some rare Taylor & Barrett and other slush cast from both sides of the Atlantic.