38c Honda motorcycle & trailer. 1967. Matchbox Lesney.

Two that I have in my collection.
Lesney Matchbox 38c Honda motorcycle & trailer.
The Lesney model of the Honda motorcycle and trailer joined the Matchbox 1 75 series towards the end of 1967 when it replaced the Vauxhall victor estate car at the number 38 spot. The motorcycle was painted light metallic green, It had 11mm die cast wire wheels with 16.5 x 70 black plastic tyres and attached to the underneath was a small black plastic stand which could be flipped down to allow the motorcycle to stand up when it was removed from the trailer. There were four different castings of the motorcycle which fortunately for us are numbered 1 to 4 on the peg that holds the stand in place. The castings differ in the size and position of the ejector rings. Casting number 1 and 2 have a 5mm ring and casting number 3 and 4 have a 4mm ring but both 1 and 4 can be found with a double ejector ring, A 3mm ejector ring has also been seen but I am not sure if it is a faint double ring or a new variation, Details will be added as more info comes to light. The trailer was initially painted orange and had no decals or labels but towards the end of the orange trailer's run large "Honda" decals were applied, Then the trailer was recoloured to yellow with the same decal type, Later the large "Honda" decals were replaced by large "Honda" labels and these were eventually replaced by smaller "Honda" labels. There were three basic castings of the trailer, type 1 had a short axle channel and no raised ejector rings / posts, type two also had a short axle channel but it had four raised ejector rings / posts. The third type also had four raised ejector rings but the axle channed was lengthened. There were four different dies casting the trailer and all were slightly different in the area of the ejector rings / posts but fortunately the dies were all numbered in reversed digits inside the voids underneath the tool boxes, I have not attempted to show every variation, just the three main base types, taken with this info and the die number under the tool box it should not be too difficult to work out which variations you have, The tool box numbers wore very thin later in the models life but they are usually distinguishable with a loop or magnifying glass. The trailer was also modified when a decal alligning ridge was added to each side of the body. The Honda & trailer were packaged in 'E' and 'F' type boxes, It was converted to superfast wheels in 1970 when motorcycle was recoloured to metallic pink and later metallic purple both with a yellow trailer, It was deleted in 1973 but was re introduced in 1977 with a metallic green motorcycle and orange trailer and again 1982 with a yellow trailer when both were included in the TP twin pack sets.