I have been resisting opening this for a
while now, but the damage being done to the bag by the sticky-out axle, along
with the fact that someone back in the 1960's thought it would be a good idea
to fill a warehouse with these - leaving them less than rare - meant that there
was no good reason for not getting it out and having a play!
The central pole or drawbar is taken from Crescent's Wild West wagons, the chariot
from Thomas Toys along with the
driver (who's not doing much driving as he's had a shield added!) and the
aforementioned Bergan Toys provide
the horses (although to be fair I think these are taken from the Tudor Rose versions going on the saddle
decoration).
Assembled, I love the colours of this toy,
all metallic with a fine aluminium-silver for the horses, a gold spar, deep
bronze for chariot and wheels and a metallic maroon plastic toy soldier!
Various close-ups; the toy figure has a
locating stud to fix him in the chariot floor unlike the Thomas one which
relied on flat-feet and/or hooking his arm over the side of the chariot.
Speaking of the Thomas one, I shot this on Adrian's stall at Sandown Park nearly
three years ago (December '14), but never got round to this post! I would have
bought it but I think I have both in storage (another reason why I was wont to
unpack the above example!) and although not really what RTM is all about, they
were - as Thomas - a 'dime-store' toy
which is the same basic principle and - as a 'weekly-shop' or pocket-money item
- was replaced by Hong Kong rack toys.
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