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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.

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

T is for Tipper Truck



Actually it's called a dump truck but hey! I was raised to think a small 'puddle-jumper' was a tipper-truck and 'dumper-trucks' were to be found in quarries and on major road-works; despite the double-axles and heavy cargo compartment, this is a little Ford puddle-jumper! Don't all write-in - it's childhood versus semantics!

Looking a lot like some late Marx vehicles of the same type (but not their dump truck which was a big, yellow, 'proper' one!) and various OK/Lucky types, it's actually branded to one of those typical Hong Kong (or Japanese) logo's which could mean anything if you don't know the company and while most Japanese companies have been sorted, most HK ones haven't!

As with a lot of these Hong Kong toy vehicles, the attempt to reproduce the functionality [in plastic] of their [mostly metal] western counterparts led to lots of easily breakable small or delicate parts, and while scaling-up helped somewhat, I'd hate to think how much of Christmas would have passed before the tipping mechanism on this would have been busted if it hadn't survived to the present day in its box?

Note that this toy's motor housing has the brass eyelet-rivets, the same system found on the TAT bren-gun carrier I looked at here ages ago (I think? I know I have one and I'm pretty sure it was Blogged!), TAT is another brand with a Lucky cross-over, and like Lucky late TAT stuff is battery operated, but re-branded to Stratco in their packaging.

The brand-mark for the tipper, your choice is as good as mine, although as the 'S' is smaller, I'm guessing we may be limited to a choice of four; HIS, HSI, IHS or ISH! And - like TAT, the logo is on the base-plate as well as the packaging.

Another 'anonymous' outfit only known as NN produced a two-axle version of this truck in various body-styles and with a heavy bumper/fender added at the front.

5 comments:

WOODSY said...

Hi Hugh, That's one cool Tipper Truck. I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't a JR toy that I hadn't seen before. That ]$[ logo is for Hsi Associated Ltd of Hong Kong. I found out when I enquired about the Comicar toy to the National Archives - see my post on JR Toys: Comicar number 315 http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/diamond.html

Hugh Walter said...

Cheers Woodsey! I've a couple more still in the queue on these 'Lucky Follow-up Posts', Brian sent me another Telsalda and there are fire-engines to come . . . big ones!

H

Hugh Walter said...

No 'e' - Soz!

H

WOODSY said...

Have you anything with the JR kite monogram underneath as in JR21?

Hugh Walter said...

No but I do look out for it for you at Sandown . . . especially things like Ice Cream Trucks and motorcycling monkeys! There was a nice pointy space ship at the last Sandown but I know you've got it you had it on a table in ashow and tell a few years ago - when Scoop visited the first time I think, and the sandown's box was bleugh!

H