Surprisingly, Wrenn didn’t have a Catalogue printed until over a year after their Formula 152 range was launched. They had been managing with their original, free, launch leaflets ’Sensational New Winner’ and ‘Real Life Racing Circuits’.

When the first Catalogue was finally launched in October 1961, it was made available to the public as a free item. This continued with the 2nd version but Wrenn did start to charge for the Catalogues when the 3rd version was launched in July 1962 and the price of 4d was printed in a White circle on the front cover.

This charge was retained for the next (4th) version, which was made available from August 1964 and the final 5th version had a price increase to 6d, which was available from February 1966.

This does make differentiating between the 3rd and 4th versions of the Catalogue slightly difficult since the front covers are identical but the inner pages do have some differences with the available items, especially with the new DC-motored Cars.

Although the original Catalogue front cover design did not change throughout all of the five different versions, the main ‘background’ printing colour did. The 1st Catalogue was printed with a Dark Blue background and this seems to be the rarest since it was only used for two months. The 2nd Catalogue had the change of  background colour to Light Blue and the 3rd, 4th and 5th Catalogues all had the  Turquoise background colour printed. For more details of the Catalogues and their differences please see the Newsletters No4 and No27 in the Newsletter Archive.