I shot this at the PW show on Adrian's
stall, what a peach; and an interesting choice for a model as this M55 was part
of a relatively short-lived family of post-WWII SPG's with common parts, quite
quickly replaced by the M108/9 family.
The model's big too, around 1:24th, maybe
1:18th? - It's about a foot-long anyway, and all in a dense silver polyethylene,
what I call beach-toy scale!
The more interesting aspect than it's age
(as a toy) or good condition is the shell-rack over the engine compartment,
just like the Taffy Toys
'Pershing/Patton' tank we looked at back at the beginnings of the blog which was
of a similar size. There are differences, the Taffy has no moulded track-link detail on the inward-facing 'walls'
of the moulding and its shells are blunter-ended, but the firing mechanism is
near identical, even to the flat blade trigger.
It raises the question as to whether Taffy were part of the Thomas group (as previously suggested -
by me, on advise) or part of the Tudor
Rose group of equally interconnected companies/entities as evidenced by the
similarities with this SPG?
We looked at the two very similar yet
different 5.5-inch guns last time too [Just checked, looking for the above link - no we didn't but I have the photographs, so I'll do a follow-up in a day or two! Tuesday!], it's as if there were two parallel
lines, possibly designed to be sold side-by-side or at least - to complement
each other?
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