Returning to what used to be so 'rare' it's
existence wasn't known, and is now becoming a bit of a perennial - this being
the second or third we've seen now?!
However, previous investigation suggested
it might be a Northrop experimental;
one of two if memory serves, both of which were well within the early war (World
War Two to the youngsters) date I have pinned on the original first run
of the Palitoy aircraft range from
which this model comes.
In fact (the bit which will have been frantically
Googled in the last few minutes!), I was told by a chap at Sandown Park this
weekend that it was an ArmstrongWhitworth design the AW 52, something which hadn't even featured in previous research,
and as the [just found] link [hopefully] shows - that is the case, with the
strange pipes coming of the trailing edges which never quite matched the vanes
of the Northrop designs.
Like the other examples we have seen (and
unlike the rest of the Palitoy range)
the aircraft type is not listed among the markings, which are otherwise just as
'vocal' as the other models we've looked at with - from the left, looking from
below;
Palitoy
Regd.
Non
Flam.
CAS
____
CAS
Made
In England
The CAS
being almost certainly British Cascelloid Limited, the parent company's name;
the retail trademark Palitoy being a
play on the founder's name, a Mr. A. E. Pallett. Celastoid
being the 1920's trademark of rival British
Celanese Limited's cellulose-acetate, aircraft modeling parts.
Because
stuff sometimes hangs around in Picasa for a while, until I work out what to do
with it, or wait for a suitable post to slip it into; this has been hanging
around since the last Sandown show in September (Mercator Trading to thank for
both) and now's clearly the post to slip it into.
Around
1:50th scale, this bears all the hallmarks of the aircraft range (without the 'CAS') but is part of a small range dated
by vehicle collectors to 1948, this could mean the aircraft models too; date
from later than suits my previous pontification, although I think this model
(with a replacement wheel) has more in common with what I consider later (flat
colour) issues of the 'planes (such as this flying wing) rather than the
flecked/recycled/waste-plastic ones, but clearly more digging needs to be done!
Previouslyon Small Scale World (this post will reappear at the top of the results page -
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