Bedford Horse-Box - 40e

The Horse Box, 40e, came out in 1977 and was produced right up to the Lesney crash in 1983 when it continued in production under the new ownership. I have five of them though and all of mine are Lesney and Made in England. Cabs are orange, yellow or green, box backs are cream, red, or brown and the drop-down ramp can be brown, white, cream or lime green. Bases can be black, silver, green and unpainted, windows are green or yellow. So, lots to go and look for then, although the ramp is usually missing.

None are particularly rare, the hardest to find seem to be the yellow cab with dark brown box and in this one the lime green ramp is harder to find than the cream one. However I suspect hat there are so many variations that there won't be huge differences in value in practice. The red box body is mentioned in Ramsay, but no price is quoted which leads me to guess that it is a pre production prototype.