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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.

Sunday, October 25, 2020

W is for Well . . . Follow-up to the Follow-up

Barney Brown of Herald Toys & Models sent these in case I didn't mention them in the follow-up to wells; which I hadn't, not only that but I had presumed the Taylor was from the hollow-cast mould and fingered Barratt as possible source of one of the two unknowns!

The truth is Barratt & Son inherited the T&B mould and FG Taylor's is the much copied version, although I think heavy cross-bar notwithstanding, the Speedwell is based on this - 'this' being the Barratt one!

Barratt & Sons; Barratt And Son's; Barratt Farm; Barratt Well; Farm Toys; Farm Wells; FG Taylor & Sons; FGT; Hollow Cast; Hollow-Cast; Model Wells; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Speedwell; Speedwell Well; T and B; T&B; Taylor & Barratt; Taylor And Barratt; Toy Wells; Water Well; Well Models; Well Toys;
This is the lead original, although the company is known as a hollow-cast producer, items like this are more traditionally made, poured-lead 'solid' castings, this is a cross-over piece with a plastic roof on a metal body, so is probably 'Barratt' rather than 'Taylor & Barratt'?

Barratt & Sons; Barratt And Son's; Barratt Farm; Barratt Well; Farm Toys; Farm Wells; FG Taylor & Sons; FGT; Hollow Cast; Hollow-Cast; Model Wells; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Speedwell; Speedwell Well; T and B; T&B; Taylor & Barratt; Taylor And Barratt; Toy Wells; Water Well; Well Models; Well Toys;
Production was eventually all-plastic and here is a later one with polymer body and roof, but still with a metal bucket and wire winding handle. You may have noticed - before reading this far! - another piece of plastic, on the bottom of the moulding? Well . . .

Barratt & Sons; Barratt And Son's; Barratt Farm; Barratt Well; Farm Toys; Farm Wells; FG Taylor & Sons; FGT; Hollow Cast; Hollow-Cast; Model Wells; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Speedwell; Speedwell Well; T and B; T&B; Taylor & Barratt; Taylor And Barratt; Toy Wells; Water Well; Well Models; Well Toys;
. . . I think this well is the first of the wells we've looked at, which is designed to hold actual water? The 'cap' is manufactured from neutral granules, is semi-transparent and can only be there to provide a seal so that water can be poured into the mould . . . how cool is that, it was the 1950's after all!

Many thanks to Barney for (what are very good-) images and the data, I'll update the other two posts to reflect the new information with links to here.

Previously;
Original Post
Follow-up Post
(post below this one on the page)

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