Four Wheel Drive Unit (Betta Bilda)

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Four Wheel Drive Unit (Betta Bilda) (i)
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Box artwork [image info]

A boxed Betta Bilda Four Wheel Drive Unit, Betta Bilda Accessory number 19, manufactured by Airfix in the late 1960s.

The pack seems to be basically complete, but doesn't have the two spare tyres, and the accessory pack (number 11?), which has probably been separated out and is likely to be listed separately in the collection. The original (un-numbered) motor leaflet is present. The box has a slide-off sleeve, revealing a cardboard tray with folded, glued double-walled sides and ends with a ~1cm perimeter gap, to absorb shocks and prevent damage to the contents if the box is dropped or receives other rough treatment.

Colour

Although most of the packaging images that we've seen for the 4WD motor (including the box images and leaflet artwork) show the motor housing and battery box to be made of red plastic, and supplied with blue wheels with black tyres, this example is moulded in blue plastic, and has red wheels with black tyres.

Box text

CONTAINS: POWERFUL 4 - WHEEL DRIVE MOTOR WITH HEAVY DUTY TYRES, FORWARD & REVERSE RENOTE CONTROL BATTERY BOX, 2 SPARE TYRES, ACCESSORY PACK CONTAINING WHEELS, AXLES, ETC., PLUGS & LEADS, INSTRUCTION LEAFLET. THIS UNIT IS DESIGNED TO OPERATE FROM TWO No. 8 TYPE3 VOLT BATTERIES (NOT SUPPLIED).

Illustrations

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  1968

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  1968

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  1968

Suggested models

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  1968

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  1968

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  1968

See also:

• Standard Motor Unit (Betta Bilda)