This is the second half of the article that was born from the
Littlewood's catalogue page that the
Moonbase boys published the other day. I was not so sure about these as being also
Raphael Lipkin, and suspect they are actually
Triang 'Minic'. The main reason being the large amount of tin-plate involved.
(06-06-2018 [D-Day!] Now known to be Welsotoys (Wells-Brimtoy))
Based on the
Bedford RL of the 1950's (some still in service in the late 1980's!), the real surprise is that it blows my
Blue Box 'unique designs' claim elsewhere out of the water! And looking at the pictures I do vaguely remember a friend having the Radar truck when we were kids.
The figures I thought were
Lone*Star are - in fact - a slightly different design, clearly copied
from [
probably by!]
LS, but in the same colour of plastic as some of the
Spot-On's I looked at a while ago.
It would appear that
Minic based their figure on the
Lone*Star figure, and
Blue Box then used the
Minic figure with the
Lone*Star mounting position to make their HO'ish figure, giving him a helmet net/cover to get over the straight-copy issue!
The
Lone*Star crew came in three poses and two base colours as seen above, the rear pose being closest to this truck pose, but with the feet together on the
Lone*Star originals.
Comparison between the two figures,
Lone*Star is the dark green one in both shots. The main difference is the mounting spigots, which come out of the small of the back of the
Lone*Star figure, and the nether regions of the other (
Triang?) figure.
Blue Box took the second figure, re-positioned the mounting spigot to the
LS position and gave him a helmet net.
Based on the Bedford RL of the 1950's (some still in service in the late 1980's!), the real surprise is that it blows my Blue Box 'unique designs' claim elsewhere out of the water! And looking at the pictures I do vaguely remember a friend having the Radar truck when we were kids.
The figures I thought were Lone*Star are - in fact - a slightly different design, clearly copied 
Comparison between the two figures, Lone*Star is the dark green one in both shots. The main difference is the mounting spigots, which come out of the small of the back of the Lone*Star figure, and the nether regions of the other (Triang?) figure.
Blue Box took the second figure, re-positioned the mounting spigot to the LS position and gave him a helmet net.
I also remeber having a radar truck when I was a nipper...the make I cannot remeber but I´m sure it came with a roket launcer and those tiny trees etc..one of the beach holiday bags of plastic soldiers and vehicles that were around in the 60´s.
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paul
Hi Paul
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I've put some Sheriff of Nott's over at the Airfix site, and I did do the ACW for you the other day!
H