P is for Problem Solved!

Chris Smith sent a follow-up to the recent Taffy 'box-ticker', with a practical suggestion/solution to the question of why no bearers have been seen for the Taffy (et al?) stretcher-case.

He (Chris) has found that the quite long (and bulb-ended) carrying-handles on the Taffy stretcher actually clip rather nicely to the . . . err . . . 'portly' waists of the jeep driver/mule or donkey & motorcycle rider from Thomas Toys and Poplar Plastics/Poplar Playthings.

Not only do I think he's on to something, I think in the absence of any other likely candidates; it's probably the answer! Indeed, if you turn the left-hand chap 180° they could do a half reasonable job of carrying (waddling!) the casualty somewhere.

Chris also supplied a shot of the Jeep the figure sometimes comes with, and checking the original post there was one in the Taffy boxed-set, but not the two necessary to make up a stretcher 'team', but he could be posed lifting the stretcher on or off the Jeep and the other thing Chris has found is that the heavy leg-stands on the underside of the stretcher clip into the back of the jeep, so my original 'where's the bearers?' question has been comprehensively put to bed twice!

1 - It clips into the back of the jeep, and if you remove the plug-in weapon/equipment you can get two-cases on each Jeep.

2 - It can be carried by the sitting/riding figure, and presumably it would work with the soft-capped, hippy-cop biker and the Mexican donkey-hand?