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Although this has no moniker, it has the
look of the Dennis Fire Appliance's I remember from my later childhood? Also I'm not that sure
of scale (about 1:24th?) as there's none given and there never is with these
Hong Kong vehicles; even when issued in 'sets', they were meant as stand-alone
toys and scale wasn't an issue - it's one of the things that makes following
them so hard, with three sizes of Jaguar (for instance) you're not always sure
what you're looking at on-line!
Clifford carried a fair bit of Lucky's
stuff, but they carried other stuff as well, so nothing definitive, but it all
adds to the whole. The artwork shows the back door opening along with one of
the side-shutters, and that's what you get, the other doors are all integral to
the moulding except the crew door, which is absent on both the models below, although
there are signs of it having been there.
The real reason for photographing it! Two
figure sculpts, driver and sit-arounder! They are the best gauge of scale,
being 70/80 mil, which gives a size between 1:22 and 1:25th scales. Made out of
the same colour plastic as some of the smaller Lucky firemen, it's another clue both to this being lucky and to Clifford's relationship with Lucky being a further clue to the LP link.
Branded to neither Lucky nor Clifford
though, it carries a base-plate for WS
Toys! I'd like to think it's a made-up brand, but as I said above: nothing's
definitive with these plastic vehicles, and has we've seen with both the
figures and the London Bus, and base mark can change or dissapear!
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