The contents match the artwork in
configuration (two each of three designs) but not in colour mix, where there is
a less random mix than suggested by the artwork! A tad bigger than N-gauge (so Lone Star's Treble-o beat them for
'smallest' for starters!) and representing no actual vehicles?
Maybe a US taxi-cab or police 'Paddy-Wagon'
(the green ones?), Ford Model-T (the red open-tops) and something French
(yellow/blue)? Copyrighted to Shackman,
they are actually sourced-in and marked Japan.
Some vicious flash on the upper-pair and
finish - on all - is what you'd call un-fettled!
I've seen these in an O-Ei-A catalogue as being credited to Kinder, but they pre-date Kinder
by fifteen or twenty years at least, the trouble with those catalogues is that
if it fits in a Kinder-egg it tends
to end up in an O-Ei-A 'Preisfuhrer'
whether it was actually Kinder or
not! Although - to be fair to the authors - over the years Kinder have sourced all sorts of stuff from half-a-hundred
manufacturers!
They (Shackman)
also did a train; Toot-Toot! You only get the four in this box and with only
three different items of rolling stock, but I love the passenger-cars which
look like someone took a Wells Fargo overland
stage-coach and plonked it on some railway wheels - which is probably close to
what actually happened!
My driver lost his head to a low bridge
long before he came into my possession, but continues to serve his locomotive
with diligence . . . and integral, semi-flat moulding! The pen-top is to give a
further sense of scale, but again these aren't the smallest.
Indeed with the exception of the tatty
pencil-sharpener engine (top left) these are all smaller, apart from the grey
car which is about the same size. I have more of this shite somewhere, but we
looked at a few in the novelty posts a few Christmases ago, and I just happened
to have these in front of me, so when I've got them all together we'll have a
better look!
Gum-ball machine capsule prizes, gift-eggs,
Christmas crackers, crafting sets/items, a pencil sharpener 'statue' and the grey
car may be from an N-gauge scenics line?
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