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Triang Hornby packaging - Budd railcar


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This morning I was browsing one of my favourite shopping sites (I buy most of my continental stock through Elaines Trains) when I spotted this intriguing Budd railcar for the Canadian market. I had assumed that there would be a standard style of packaging, the same as we had in the UK, but obviously not; the description says that it's factory sealed with the staples still in place. Did models for the antipodean market have their own style of packaging too?

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Zodiac Toys sold off a load of imported ex-Canadian Triang-Hornby stock some time around 1980 (possibly a bit before or after 1980). Some rolling stock was in normal circa 1970 boxes (I bought some Tierwaygs with MINIX cars on) but some was in that vac style packaging.

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Pat Hammond in The Storey of Rovex Vol 2 refers to that style of packaging being introduced by the Canadian company having it had more loose freight cars than it needed for sets and from Jan 1971 sold them as solo models. Batches of Budd Railcars were made at Margate in 1965, 1967 ,1969 and 1971 for Canada, many going bulk-packed for use in sets. Obviously therefore it was not just the wagons that were so packaged in Canada and one such example is pictured in the book.

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