The combined-harvester and bucket-mounted tractor will be copied from die-casts in the larger size (Corgi or Dinky?) and come with two slightly different drivers, the tractor driver is a lift from Corgi, I don't know for sure where the combine operator is taken from.
The calf is also a Corgi item which we looked at the other day I think? If we didn't we soon will. I'm not sure where the lorry is stolen from, I think it may be a Blue Box cut-n-shut with the Corgi trailer and a different push-and-go cab-unit?
Although looking a bit Britains'y, the cart may be based on one of the smaller makes such as Barratt or Taylor? but the figures come straight from Britains oeuvre, and we again find both based versions and the plug-in base we've been encountering through all the recent Blue Box posts. I particularly like the card load!
More blow-moulding including the copies of the Starlux* rocky outcrops (bottom left), sacks (scaled-up from the Corgi elevator sets, two hay-ricks of indeterminate origin (due to my ignorance -
* 31/10/2012 - I'm sure I've seen these as Starlux mouldings in their usual dense plastic, however I tracked down the original at the Birmingham show, this weekend just gone, and it's Elastolin, so I may be wrong on the Starlux thing?
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The Blue-Box barn, farmhouse and haystacks are copies of items from the Spot-on by Triang 'Cotswold Village Series', to go with their toy cars etc. Their originals were made of rubber, hollow inside but quite thick & heavy.
Haystack & Farmhouse are the same as Triang, except for shorter chimney. Spot-on barn has steps/small door on left, main doors on right.
Thanks David
That's very useful, I have only ever seen a couple of those buildings, and I'm sure you can guess the semi-brittle semi-melted state of them! The Pub and the Oast-house/Brewery(?).
It also explains the slightly drunk nature of the Blue Box copies!! I'll add that to the post.
Cheers
Hugh
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