#541 Matchbox - Snr6 Hovercraft Together With Rescue Hovercraft (Nr. 72 Together With 2) (1972 Together With 1976)

The showtime article of the terminal calendar month (month of the bootleg) continued the terminal entry of March, too the showtime entry inwards May volition too somehow choke on the terminal entry of April. This way, both articles volition live "together" too it volition live easier to detect 1 from the other.

These are the ii Superfast Hovercrafts made past times Matchbox. Both conduct keep the same base of operations alongside the same reference inwards the 1-75 series, although they are dissimilar casts too inwards all catalogues conduct keep dissimilar numbers, they conduct keep been numbered 72 & 2, too they are actually 72-B too 02-C.

The showtime 1 (72-B, from 1972-78) is a white hovercraft alongside dark base of operations too cerise plastic details. It is a quite mutual model, but unfortunately the plastic business office on transcend is quite fragile, too then sometimes, those blades are broken. It carries 1 sticker on each side alongside the letters SRE6 addition the Union Jack.

The minute model (02-C, from 1976-80) was made inwards brilliant dark-green alongside a brownish base. Maybe they had inwards heed to unloose a armed forces model, but at the terminate it was decorated alongside but about random "RESCUE" stickers. This model has ii chromed bits on top, that resembles but about sort of motor addition an air intake. These are sometimes non really shiny anymore, but, inwards general, this model is much to a greater extent than durable than the showtime one.

It seems to me, that the white model is a scale reproduction of a existent hovercraft, patch the minute 1 is to a greater extent than similar an invention, but I could live wrong, I am no skillful on this topic, too never saw a existent hovercraft either.

The white hovercraft was too available inwards a bigger scale inwards the Superkings series.

UPDATE: This is a rare Rescue Hovercraft inwards a pale dark-green alongside dark base. I institute it past times jeopardy too never had seen it before. Did you lot know it? Was it sold equally business office of but about bigger kit, or inwards the ordinary 1-75 series? Anyhow a really interesting model. I know what Christian Falkensteiner has published here: http://www.cfalkensteiner.com/Matchbox/Catalog/LS/LS01-39/LS02c/ChF-LS02c.htm

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