This may be something that some of you know all about already but, for some reason, I have missed this in all these years and so, for the benefit of others like me, you will find that some early models have towing eyes cut out of the base and some do not.
Here I illustrate the relevant issues:
200 Ford Consul
201 Austin Cambridge
202 Morris Cowley
203 Vauxhall Velox
204 Rover 90
205 Riley Pathfinder
206 Hillman Husky
207 Standard Vanguard III
The Standard did not get a tin base, all model having the more solid type with a bulge on the rear axle. You will see the black base in two styles, just as the M bases had two styles of text content and placement, as well as a grey base, although this seems only to appear on the later shaped wheels edition with only the top of the roof painted red. I guess there may be examples of smooth wheel editions with a grey base but they'll be pretty scarce.
Generally, I cannot tell the relative numbers of each type and cannot advise which will be the rarer type of base for each of the tin plate models. I would appreciate any help with this, looking through everything on sale and keeping a note of examples found. So far, the Ford Consul seems comparatively scarce with a towing eye because I had to use the image of a very rare blue 200 (not 200M) that I have, all the usual 200 colours having no cut-out. I do expect to find more, though, and doubt that no cut-out can be very unusual.
208 Jaguar 2.4 Litre
209 Jaguar 2.4 Police Car
Subsequent issues all appear to have the tow eye with the more solid base being fitted to 210, 211, 214 and 215 and all from 217.
The 213 Jaguar Fire Service appears only to have the base with a cut-out tow eye, much as one might expect as for the 209 Police Car, being a later issue. Similarly the last of the tin bases, the 216 Austin A40 appears only to have the base with the towing eye.
Generally, I cannot tell the relative numbers of each type and cannot advise which will be the rarer type of base for each of the tin plate models. I would appreciate any help with this, looking through everything on sale and keeping a note of examples found. So far, the Ford Consul seems comparatively scarce with a towing eye because I had to use the image of a very rare blue 200 (not 200M) that I have, all the usual 200 colours having no cut-out. I do expect to find more, though, and doubt that no cut-out can be very unusual.
Again, generally, I would expect the no cut-out models to be less common amongst the 208 and it is possible that none were produced for models issued after 1958 but that's merely my suggestion.
I have yet to examine all the other early issues but so far it appears that the sports cars and Bedford CA vans had no towing eye. That may just be that none I found have one so I shall continue looking before deciding anything on that.
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