The one on the left with the wire towbar was the original from 1958, the cast towbar came out at the end of 1962 and the red & blue colour was the Chipperfields circus version that came in a Gift Set with a Land Rover and Elephant crate (with an elephant). I've got two of these and the one below with the Land Rover is shown in the Chipperfields gift set context. All I still need to get is the elephant. I've even got the leaflet that explains how to assemble the crate.

The blue and yellow one was in a gift set with the ERF lorry (as sort of shown in the pics) as a builders merchant set with cement bags and planks. They used the same back body as was used for the Commer & ERF Platform lorries and were therefore compatible with all the Corgi Cargoes as shown here.

The one with the white deck and baby blue chassis came from a milk lorry gift set which was released concurrently with the Bedford milk tanker and the Karrier Bantam dairy produce van, all in natty matching blue and white livery.

There's one missing that I'm aware of. It was all yellow and was part of one of the agricultural gift sets.

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