Brand - Reference
Matchbox Major Pack 4
Type
Ruston-Bucyrus 22-RB excavator
Comments
Model appeared in 1959 and removed in 1965 according to the Moko Lesney Matchbox Toy Collecting website.
Scale unspecified. According to the dimensions given below, it is between 1:88 (cab length) and 1:104 (track wheelbase).
All the pictures confirm that Matchbox did not respect the Ruston-Bucyrus “graphics standards”: cabin bordeaux at the bottom, yellow at the top, and chassis dark grey. Normal: for obvious reasons of cost, at Matchbox, a part received only a single colour.
Modifications
- Jib repared.
- Tracks purchased from Model Car Parts (Holland). They are green, while the original were grey, if I’m not mistaken.
History
Quotation of essexmodelsandminiatures (itself largely derived from wikipedia), broken link.
Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd was an engineering company established in 1930 and jointly owned by Ruston and Hornsby based in Lincoln, England and Bucyrus-Erie based in Bucyrus, Ohio, the latter of which had operational control and into which the excavator manufacturing operation of Ruston and Hornsby was transferred.
The Ruston-Bucyrus 22-RB was a middle of the range unit and many are still in use today.
Documents:
- en.wikipedia.org article.
- Photos on photos-engins.overblog.com.
- YouTube video of a 22-RB excavator perfectly restored. Show the video.
The original website is no longer directly accessible
following the death of its author Nick Jones.
You can access a copy of the article at
web.archive.org.
There is another backup on
vbd2-archive.in-nz.com.