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LEGO: Wheel brick undrilled

            Exept for the transparent wheelbrick and the blue one, the rest are undrilled, which means no holes were put in during molding.
It is still uncertain at this point if the holes were meant to be “drilled” later.
As other wheelbricks give the impression the holes were molded in. It is possible these were early tests and they later changed the mold.
More research is needed.

The transparent one is also rare as it was mostly used in advertisements and showing of the new element.
A great brick, but the same could have been shown with a transparent bottom.
But LEGO used transparent parts more often to show of their new elements.

The blue one with brown bottom is the weird one out…

The bottom row shows the flushing out of the previous black color, going to white.
These are normally not found because they get put back in the molding machine, or reused in other batches.

Element 7049 (a or b) from 1963 to 1996, it only came in black and white in sets with differing bottom colors, from transparent to red and white opaque.
   

Taken on: May 8, 2024

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