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May 10, 2017 14:38

Many times I come across new entries / changes that put the Matchbox models in the Lesney Products.

Nothing wrong with that, I prefer to put them (for now) under Matchbox as a manufacturer.

- some points on this

In my opinion, the name Matchbox is known to a much larger percentage of the average audience.

Only a small number of them know that the models are made by the manufacturer Lesney.

My conservative estimate is that only 5% of Matchbox name connoisseurs * have Lesney knowledge.

My question to you is: should we move to Lesney or should we keep Matchbox as a manufacturer?

My vote is 50/50.

50% for Matchbox - which has become a "popular term". If I may call it that.

50% for Lesney - for the simple reason that it is the actual manufacturer.

Then I automatically come to the following,

A new field has been requested from management.

The "Series" field will hopefully be added soon **.

Then we intend to transfer some types to series.

For Matchbox this means that, among other things, Matchbox Regular Wheels,

Matchbox Superfast and Matchbox King Size become a series containing the types.

And all those other manufacturers with their series of course.

Then hopefully it will also be a lot easier to make the numbers of the models logical,

e.g. a proposal to remove the MB in the Superfast series to get.

So once they have been created as a series,

PLEASE DO NOT start changing numbers.

* This does not always have to be a model car owner.

** We have to wait a while for an employee who is on vacation,

you know, on the beach, straw hat on, feet up , piña colada…;)

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May 10, 2017 15:45

What you can do in any case (if all Matchboxes are made by Lesney) is enter the name Lesney as Alias in the manufacturer table. Who then enters Lesney will immediately see Matchbox pop up ...

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May 10, 2017 20:15

Good plan, done, thanks mate

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December 12, 2017 17:20

A late response: I only recently came across a different item in my collection):

In my opinion, not all Matchbox items are made by Lesney (then it says Made in England by Lesney). There are also items made in China by Matchbox International (the different base-plate then states © 1977 Matchbox Int'l Ltd Made in China).

Unfortunately I don't know when that was.

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