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Reply to "Lionel pre-war tinplate trucks question"

My guess is the truck frame was made in two strikes. First sheared the part to the correct shape.  The second put in all the bends and did the crimping. At some point they probably needed a truck without the tab bent, so that part of the tooling was cut or ground off the forming die.  Maybe they wanted to use that truck on a frame without the the radial slot.  The change from bent to unbent tabs probably happened on a very specific date and maybe that feature could help date cars.  I think it is very unlikely they had little old ladies sitting around bending that tab and they just missed a few now and then.  

Last edited by David Johnston

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