Sports Car (Hornby Modelled Miniatures 22a)
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Sports Car (Hornby Modelled Miniatures 22a).jpg) Hornby Modelled Miniatures 22a Sports Car, 1933 Meccano Magazine illustration (i)
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A very rare blue and yellow Hornby Modelled Miniatures Sports Car, number 22a.
The model is an open-top two-seater high-bonnet roadster, with blue bodywork and yellow running boards, seats and windscreen frame. Tyres are black, with blue wheel hubs.
Survival
Since this is a soft lead casting, the thin protruding (empty) windscreen frame was very prone to being damaged or destroyed if the car was, say, dropped onto a hard surface upside down, so most surviving examples have the windscreen sides and top missing, or occasionally you find them flattened (and nobody's had the nerve to try straightening them, in case they break off!). This example is especially notable for having its windscreen frame still intact.
The original car
Discussion on the TalkModelToys forum identifies the uncredited model as probably being a Swallow-bodied Wolsey Hornet.
The 1933 Wolsey Hornet Special had bodywork built by Swallow, who later changed their name to SS, and then changed it again (possibly due to the unfortunate existence of an unpopular German organisation with the same name), to Jaguar.
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