. . . ♫ Moving on the Queens High'way; Lookin' Like'a Streak-a'Lightning ♫"
It is a mystery to me how this stuff comes
in, it only seems a few weeks since I did a round-up of motorcycles thinking "That's it for a while", and damn-me
if I haven't got a whole lot more to share with you! And to show it isn't
really a mystery, but rather synergy; these all piled-up in the last couple of
weeks!
This was first, an email from Brian Berke
with a few 'shelfies' and a note to the effect he knew I liked motorbikes on
the Blog and thought this was worthy of my attention. It is! And it's also the
'other' FunTastic, so I'll have to be
careful with the tags!
It says 'three styles' and what looks to be
an identical one is seen below, with a different colour-way, whether that's it,
or whether there are different models and colour-ways leading to the necessity
to collect a whole fleet is something the Atlantic will prevent me investing in
a search of the definitive answer to - no bad thing - but thanks for the shot
Brian!
At the other end of the spectrum in every
sense is this Holgar Eriksson designed generic 'combat troops' machine in 30mm
lead. . . weird for having an obvious sticky-out, kick-stand (both sides) but
no sticky-out handle-bars? Unmarked by dint of its design, I'm assuming Comet/Authenticast, but it is just a likely
to be SAE?
We've seen the silver chap (recently I
fear?) but the gold one with blue wheels turned-up at Sandown the other day, so
a fleet of these seems to be in my future . . . oh lordy!
While below them two more [purported to be]
Airfix bikes to add to the -
currently in storage - bag, sans riders (but that made them cheap!), they
normally have a chap in a sort of field-cap/service hat, but there may be other
riders.
Because by Monday just-gone, I could see a bike
post building; when I saw these I nearly bought them on the spot . . . but went
back and got them first-thing Tuesday! From a larger set of Iwaco-type erasers (a pound for 6) we
will look at separately; they're too cool for driving-school!
The gods of space-saving: Crammy
and Pylitup,
decided I couldn't add these to the stack, so I photographed them on Adrian's Mercator Trading stall at
Sandown Park - French, look like Cofalux
(?), it's very similar to the damaged black one we saw here a while ago
(separate handlebars are even closer) and the pointy-hands of the riders
suggest I have a spare military rider somewhere!
And as the Belgians were stalled-out behind
us - with some nice modernist melamine shelving - I took the opportunity to
shoot them on a contemporaneous, '50's-feeling, patterned-background! But I
forgot the jiggit on the camera-lens, Doh!
The interest element here is that you have
polystyrene bikes, polyethylene handlebars and vinyl-rubber figures! The comedy
element here is that they are motorcycles? Presumably the ladder folds into the
side-car and the hoses are micro-bore, everyone's using micro-bore now!
It was the best way of getting more
desirable toy subjects (police, fire and even ambulances) into a budget for
every pocket, like all those family-saloons and estate-cars/shooting-brakes
sold as Fire Chief's. I think we had more fire chiefs in our toy box than all
other fire vehicles put together . . .
"Hey Chief!"
"Hey yer'self Chief! Oh, look here's the Chief
coming..."
"You Chiefs over there, can you grab the County Fire
Chief when he gets here; and go and blow on that fire, see if you can put it
out?"
"Who made
you Chief?"
"Who made
you Chief?"
"Who made
you Chief?"
"Who made
you Chief?"
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