Woolbro were one of the few Hong Kong names holding their own against
Giant, others being
Hagemeyer/Haglon, Gordy, Imperial and
Empress, though none were as big as
Blue Box. I used to think they were - like
Winfield - an 'in house' brand of
Woolworths, but it's clear they sold to anyone who'd buy their products, and that they sourced product from all over the colony, including the
Blue Box/Rado/Ri-Toys empire.
This contains the commonly found mini-trucks based on the old
Lone*Star/Dinky post war Humber trucks, along with copies of
Britains 54mm khaki Infantry.
This set has similar contents (but with the later less detailed figures on ovoid bases - click on both images to compare), divided into two compartments, so you could divide them up with you brother and have a fight (no, not a war-game, a fight over who's figures were who's!).
An under-scale Saladin armoured-car is the 'highlight' of this set, along with copies of
Airfix first version 8th Army and German WWII Infantry. Deliberately made to look just like a
Blue Box play-set, it's nice to know they were cutting each other up, as well as ripping-off the European manufacturers. Even more interesting when we look at the next photograph;
Both these contain figures/products from
Blue Box or
Ri-toys, I have bags identical to the one on the left but with the
Ri-Toys tree symbol where the
Woolbro logo is on this header, while an unmarked vac-formed tray like the one on the right, contains more of the
Blue Box cowboys with a little fort. The figures on the left are multi-coloured versions of the - usually green - French Resistance Fighters originally by
Blue-box in factory-painted pale-blue hard polystyrene. The 'planes came in all sorts of HK sets. [20 NP = Twenty 'New Pence' dating this set to 1969/70]
This contains the commonly found mini-trucks based on the old Lone*Star/Dinky post war Humber trucks, along with copies of Britains 54mm khaki Infantry.
This set has similar contents (but with the later less detailed figures on ovoid bases - click on both images to compare), divided into two compartments, so you could divide them up with you brother and have a fight (no, not a war-game, a fight over who's figures were who's!).
An under-scale Saladin armoured-car is the 'highlight' of this set, along with copies of Airfix first version 8th Army and German WWII Infantry. Deliberately made to look just like a Blue Box play-set, it's nice to know they were cutting each other up, as well as ripping-off the European manufacturers. Even more interesting when we look at the next photograph;
Both these contain figures/products from Blue Box or Ri-toys, I have bags identical to the one on the left but with the Ri-Toys tree symbol where the Woolbro logo is on this header, while an unmarked vac-formed tray like the one on the right, contains more of the Blue Box cowboys with a little fort. The figures on the left are multi-coloured versions of the - usually green - French Resistance Fighters originally by Blue-box in factory-painted pale-blue hard polystyrene. The 'planes came in all sorts of HK sets. [20 NP = Twenty 'New Pence' dating this set to 1969/70]
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