The Benne basculante Simca "Cargo", an 'as new' example:



The other day I noticed that this Benne basculante Simca "Cargo" has two neat tiny red dots below the front of the front mud guards. It could be some marking, code of an earlier owner of this model:



But, browsing in 'Utilitaires Dinky Toys & Dinky Supertoys' by Redempt and Touillez, I happened to come across some similar but a little different feature underneath an example as shown on page 147 over there:



I'm not very familiar with French Dinkies, so it may mean nothing at all, but possibly someone has seen this or something similar before, or someone might even have an explanation for this curious red marking!


Kind regards, Jan Werner

Dear Jan.
I will have a look on mine, but I know that I already saw these red points on some of my items.
I thing that it is something to do with the position of the body on the grill when painting.
For the moment, I have 10 variants of this Simca and I will try to post a photo later.
There were 4 moulds for the body, 2 for the tip, 2 for the back door and all these pieces where mixed. Then, you add 2 different colours for the body, light green and dark green, and 3 different grey for the tip !
Then you add 2 different hubs : concave and convex
Then you add 2 different fixing for the safety tyre : screw or rivet !
That'all folks

Thanks very much, Richard, and I look forward to the photo documentation! Regards, Jan

Dear Jan,
Here we go !
First, a group photo

All of them have a difference !

Body colour

Tip colour and inside look : smooth or striped
The reinforcement in the middle of the back door : either in relief or in hollow



Here, only the right one has a hollow reinforcement !