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:
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
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
No 'e' - Soz!
H
Have you anything with the JR kite monogram underneath as in JR21?
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
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