Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn gave away free Thunderbirds technical sheets during 1966. A new sheet was made available once every two weeks, to qualifying customers, buying "Silver" or "Gold" Queen margarine.
These large foldout single sheets had a colour cover and a black and white cutaway on the reverse. Each sheet was colour-coded, the first sheet issued was "Code Blue" (Thunderbird 1) followed each of the following weeks by "Code Green" (Thunderbird 2), "Code Violet" (FAB 1), "Code Red" (Thunderbird 3), "Code Yellow" (Thunderbird 4) and "Code Orange" (Thunderbird 5).
Copyright was given as "A.P Films (Merchandising) Ltd, London / Production Sales Promotion Spits"
Today these technical sheets are very rare and when they do turn-up for sale, can reach as much as £200 for a set in mint condition.
Issues[]
Code Blauw (Blue)[]
The first issue, Thunderbird 1 technical sheet.
Code Groen (Green)[]
Code Violet[]
Code Rood (Red)[]
Code Geel (Yellow)[]
Code Oranje (Orange)[]
Cutaways[]
Black and white reproductions of Eric Eden's cutaway drawings, taken from the original Century 21 series of annuals, were included with each issue.
Advertising[]
The following are Dutch newspaper adverts for the series.
