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    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Matt and Kathryn Oliver on Thu Dec 24 06:07:20 2015
    On Friday, March 10, 2000 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Matt and Kathryn Oliver wrote:
    Hi, Can anyone help me with how old these kits might be? They
    are HO. Made by Laconia industries in Stockton California. They
    are wooden billboard reefer car kits. There are no trucks in the
    kits but I am not sure whether or not here should have been any
    included. The boxes are orange and white. One is Bourk &
    Donaldson & Taylor Inc. Vegetables and the other is a Tivoli Beer
    car. Any ideas? Kathy

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    Oliver
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    Remember, He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

    Laconia began advertising in 1939 and were in business until they merged with Binkley Models in 1953. Binkley retained many of the Laconia designed railroad cars that can be found once in awhile on ebay. The Sierra Combine was introduced by Laconia, and
    Binkley continued to produce it until they were purchased by Red Ball, who continued to produce it. It is one of the most abundant early models availble and can be found at very reasonable prices on ebay under Laconia, Binkley (rarer) and Red Ball
    I am a collector of early HO craftsman passenger coaches and combine cars and I have one each of the Sierra Combine coaches from the above mentioned producers of this popular coach.
    I turust that this information is helpful.
    den72ny

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  • From Trenbidia@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 24 17:41:05 2015
    On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 06:07:20 -0800, den72ny wrote:

    On Friday, March 10, 2000 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Matt and Kathryn Oliver
    wrote:
    Hi, Can anyone help me with how old these kits might be?

    Laconia began advertising in 1939 and were in business until they merged
    with Binkley Models in 1953.

    Denny, you just responded to a 15 year old post :-).

    Or the original posters system had/has a really screwed up date :-).





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  • From Christopher A. Lee@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Dec 27 13:25:31 2015
    On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:41:05 +0000 (UTC), Trenbidia
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 06:07:20 -0800, den72ny wrote:

    On Friday, March 10, 2000 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Matt and Kathryn Oliver
    wrote:
    Hi, Can anyone help me with how old these kits might be?

    Laconia began advertising in 1939 and were in business until they merged
    with Binkley Models in 1953.

    Denny, you just responded to a 15 year old post :-).

    Or the original posters system had/has a really screwed up date :-).

    Google does that to its users, sometimes.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Matt and Kathryn Oliver on Sat Jan 2 06:57:03 2016
    On Friday, March 10, 2000 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Matt and Kathryn Oliver wrote:
    Hi, Can anyone help me with how old these kits might be? They
    are HO. Made by Laconia industries in Stockton California. They
    are wooden billboard reefer car kits. There are no trucks in the
    kits but I am not sure whether or not here should have been any
    included. The boxes are orange and white. One is Bourk &
    Donaldson & Taylor Inc. Vegetables and the other is a Tivoli Beer
    car. Any ideas? Kathy

    --
    Matt, Kathy, Steven 14 & Sarah 11, ChessieBB9, NikeBM3 & Tabby
    Oliver
    Check out our Home Page at http://www.eaglequest.com/~pwrwgn

    Remember, He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

    I realized how old the post was. I wanted to post the information, that I did, for anyone who may have a considered intersest, whether then, now or in the furure.
    Drnny

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Matt and Kathryn Oliver on Sat Jan 2 07:04:22 2016
    On Friday, March 10, 2000 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Matt and Kathryn Oliver wrote:
    Hi, Can anyone help me with how old these kits might be? They
    are HO. Made by Laconia industries in Stockton California. They
    are wooden billboard reefer car kits. There are no trucks in the
    kits but I am not sure whether or not here should have been any
    included. The boxes are orange and white. One is Bourk &
    Donaldson & Taylor Inc. Vegetables and the other is a Tivoli Beer
    car. Any ideas? Kathy

    --
    Matt, Kathy, Steven 14 & Sarah 11, ChessieBB9, NikeBM3 & Tabby
    Oliver
    Check out our Home Page at http://www.eaglequest.com/~pwrwgn

    Remember, He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

    Some of you may have noticed the misspelled words in my last post. Thought I might explain that I am still teaching my keyboard how to spell and it hasn't quite got it right yet.
    Denny

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