Since Jan referred to this model in his very nice post on the 25y Universal Jeep, I thought it might be nice to continue a bit, but in it's own thread. It appears that this little model was introduced in 1947, one year after it's military brother first appeared. The GBoDT says it was discontinued in 1952, but it did appear in the U.S. 1953 catalog (see photo below). By 1954, the catalog was showing the new, larger 25y. Jan's photo of his 25j shows the earlier black wheels. Apparently the later export issues to the U.S. had colored wheels, as mine shows the blue wheels.
I will have to apologize some for my model; I bought this new from H.Hudson Dobson, early in my late childhood collecting era, around 1959. It did get played with some and the resultant scratches and chips were touched up many years ago. It does not look that bad under normal lighting, but when taking pictures, everything shows! You can tell that I also added treaded tires a long time ago...I thought they looked more appropriate on the Jeep, and don't want to pry them off now.
There are some other color versions, so please post them. And by the way, I much prefer this Jeep model to the later one. As Jan mentioned, it does have more detail, what with the rear mounted spare tire, the extra gas can next to it, and that neat shovel mounted on the drivers side. It even had the gas tank under the drivers seat, and the muffler on the passenger side. I always loved the great detail on this model...very nicely done by Dinky!
    Best regards, Terry