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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Thursday, July 16, 2020

GS is for General Service . . . -Truck, -Wagon, -Lorry

As I've had them all out for the larger articles on Jean and Noreda, I re-shot the Manurba wagons and Airfix 'Duce-', the Airfix post is still in edit, but here's the Manurba comparisons

4x4 AFV; 4x4 Truck; 6x6 AFV; 6x6 Truck; AFV's; Airfix Model; Airfix Readymade; Army Lorries; Army Vehicles; Artillery Tractor; CCKW; Chevy'; Flat Bed; France; French Toys; Furth; German Toys; Germany; GMC; International; Jean Germany; Jean Höffler; Jean Hoefler; Jean Plastic; Made In Germany; Manurba Truck; Noreda France; Noreda Plastic AFV's; Noreda Plastic Trucks; Plastic Lorry; REO; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Studebaker; Toy AFV's; Toy Army Vehicles; Toy Lorries; Toy Trucks; Troop Carrier;
The Manurba wagon, as stated this morning is a reasonable rendition of the Magirus-Deutz 'Jupiter' 6x6 truck which was the staple truck when I was visiting Germany in the late 70's, by the time I was back there as a serviceman myself in the mid-80's they had mostly been replaced by newer cab-over-engin (COE) designs from MAN in 4x4, 6x6 and 8x8. It also has the lines of the M35 Duce-and-a-half from the US arsenal.

Here we see an earlier toy one in a deep olive-green with grey wheels, and a later issue in a drabber green, with black wheels and wearing a German cross on the bonnet. It is this version which seems to have been sold in the UK as/under the Tallon branding.

4x4 AFV; 4x4 Truck; 6x6 AFV; 6x6 Truck; AFV's; Airfix Model; Airfix Readymade; Army Lorries; Army Vehicles; Artillery Tractor; CCKW; Chevy'; Flat Bed; France; French Toys; Furth; German Toys; Germany; GMC; International; Jean Germany; Jean Höffler; Jean Hoefler; Jean Plastic; Made In Germany; Manurba Truck; Noreda France; Noreda Plastic AFV's; Noreda Plastic Trucks; Plastic Lorry; REO; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Studebaker; Toy AFV's; Toy Army Vehicles; Toy Lorries; Toy Trucks; Troop Carrier;
Looking at the contemporary rivals alphabetically; we start with Airfix, nominally 'HO/OO' both scale to an approximate 1:76th-1:72nd and are useful additions to an 'old school war-games army, the Airfix being a WWII era type - I'm never sure how you tell a GMC CCKW from a Chevy' from an International or a Studebaker/REO? Except the true REO's seem to have a very different mudguard!

The Airfix model seeming to have GMC/Chevrolet open-cab and mudguards, but the Studebaker's slightly more pointed bonnet/hood and shallower bed, but a lot of it's down to camera-angle and point of view I think - they were all to a common DoD design and meant to be as compatible as possible in workshops?

4x4 AFV; 4x4 Truck; 6x6 AFV; 6x6 Truck; AFV's; Airfix Model; Airfix Readymade; Army Lorries; Army Vehicles; Artillery Tractor; CCKW; Chevy'; Flat Bed; France; French Toys; Furth; German Toys; Germany; GMC; International; Jean Germany; Jean Höffler; Jean Hoefler; Jean Plastic; Made In Germany; Manurba Truck; Noreda France; Noreda Plastic AFV's; Noreda Plastic Trucks; Plastic Lorry; REO; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Studebaker; Toy AFV's; Toy Army Vehicles; Toy Lorries; Toy Trucks; Troop Carrier;
Both the Jean (here) and Noreda are slightly larger models (I've tagged them 1:64th as well as the other sizes, in all three posts - the US 'HO' slot-racing 'size'), and both are pretty fictional, the Jean having a vague look of the Mercedes 911.

4x4 AFV; 4x4 Truck; 6x6 AFV; 6x6 Truck; AFV's; Airfix Model; Airfix Readymade; Army Lorries; Army Vehicles; Artillery Tractor; CCKW; Chevy'; Flat Bed; France; French Toys; Furth; German Toys; Germany; GMC; International; Jean Germany; Jean Höffler; Jean Hoefler; Jean Plastic; Made In Germany; Manurba Truck; Noreda France; Noreda Plastic AFV's; Noreda Plastic Trucks; Plastic Lorry; REO; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Studebaker; Toy AFV's; Toy Army Vehicles; Toy Lorries; Toy Trucks; Troop Carrier;
The Noreda effort - like Jean's - fictional, is a 4x4 and has been described as a Berliet truck, but I can't find a match, so it's French Generic Mk1! Again heading toward 1:64th (or 1:70th at a push?) it has the added benefit of a towed trailer - as we saw this morning.

4x4 AFV; 4x4 Truck; 6x6 AFV; 6x6 Truck; AFV's; Airfix Model; Airfix Readymade; Army Lorries; Army Vehicles; Artillery Tractor; CCKW; Chevy'; Flat Bed; France; French Toys; Furth; German Toys; Germany; GMC; International; Jean Germany; Jean Höffler; Jean Hoefler; Jean Plastic; Made In Germany; Manurba Truck; Noreda France; Noreda Plastic AFV's; Noreda Plastic Trucks; Plastic Lorry; REO; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Studebaker; Toy AFV's; Toy Army Vehicles; Toy Lorries; Toy Trucks; Troop Carrier;
All four stripped-down to open flat-bed for all weather cargo, or miserable, wet troops! Lengthwise they are all much of a muchness, but the two-axle Noreda is clearly a scale or two above, while the Jean is noticeably taller or 'chunkier'.

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