Lowered ex works
07/19/2024
When a toy car drastically loses ground clearance, it is usually due to an inattentive adult stepping on it. Probably every boy has had to experience at some point how a member of his fleet has been forcibly lowered. The left of these two 1956 Ford Country Sedans from Matchbox, however, was not the victim of a hard shoe. It had already left the factory in Hackney with a minimized body height.
This is because one of the Lesney employees there inserted and riveted the floor panel upside down at the end of the 1950s. The axles, which normally run underneath the "chassis", now lie above it, which is why the yellow estate car hunkers down on the floor more than usual. Of course, when working on a piecework basis on the assembly line, it is possible for a little carelessness to occur. Nevertheless, it is hard to believe that such a good-looking mistake is really an oversight.
