P is for Picasa Clearance - Banner and Pyro Trucks

Just a quickie, this was in the folder with the spaceships - which is a bit daft, so let's get them out and away!

Both 'dime-store' vehicles from the late 1940's or early 1950's with Banner's cross-over plastic/tin-plate lorry behind and the larger size of Pyro troop-carrier in front of it.

Kleeware carried the Pyro vehicles in the UK, but this is a US moulding, I think you can tell - in the photo - from the sharpness and shade of the figures (?), in 'life' you will find different markings of course.

I don't know if Banner had a similar UK partner? Damp (these were from a collection kept in Florida) has attacked the tin-plate [canvas] tilt with surface rust which has to be watched, because once it's got a  hold it will always threaten to spread.

Another old picture from a sorting session at the old house back in 2009, we looked at the Tudor Rose at the time I think and maybe one or two others (Kleeware), but most would go back to storage, however we may well have them all back here by July, so there may be some in the autumn, but with everything else coming out of storage, it may be a while before we get round to some things in any event!

It's a fuzzy, long-shot I'm afraid, but you can spot another Banner truck with squarer tilt, along with a station-wagon and HO road-grader, in the mid-distance. Next to them are the other marked Pyro military (the Kleeware being out of shot or in one of the tubs) . . . what else can you recognise?

There's a Gilbert fire-monster from Dr. No.(the dividing/splitting yacht is hiding somewhere?), a rather warped Ideal jeep, Aurora window-display Patton, Tim Mee, the Raphael Lipkin tank transporter (we also looked at, at the time) and Conqueror, a few space-tanks, lots of 'Empire' and HK polymer, Thomas, a Tudor Rose battle-group in the foreground, Majorette hiding by the table, Manurba civil trucks (pale green blobs to the left), Auburn, Wannatoys, Irwin, Reliable, Wells-Brimtoy, Tomte/Galenite, a boxed 'old bill' bus and a whole tub of artillery!

All good fun, most still to come on Small Scale World! And no - I can't remember why a half a pirate ship is in evidence, their tub was elsewhere!

Added at the last minute, from another folder, this is the Kleeware marked, 'military' plastic version of the Pyro smaller-size drinks-crate wagon! We've seen it with the others, here before, but it gets it out of Picasa and off the laptop!