B is for Believed to Be . . . Zang; Navy

Shot on Adrian Little's (Mercator Trading) stall last autumn, or - at least - removed to the sunlight outside and shot; these are believed to be previously unknown output from Zang - who would go on to work with Timpo and Britains (Herald) before being bought-out by the hollow-casting giant as their nascent plastics-arm.

A small fleet; including submarines, two sizes of warship, a carrier, a liner in use as a troop ship and a couple of bog-standard tramp-steamers. Writing in the past of my theory re- the 'Zang for Timpo' being wartime rather than post-war, I suspect the same is true of these, they seem to be early-war (or  pre-/inter-war) designs?

Close-ups of the large liner/troopship and aircraft carrier, a three-stack liner could be RMS Queen Mary or the ill-fated RMS Empress of Britain, while the distinctive twin-stack carrier with huge searchlight might be HMS Eagle, while the under-shots are liner to the left, carrier to the right.

The underside of the submarine (top left) shows the instantly recognisable mauve-grey of Zang's pumice-mix composition. Battleship is top-left and bottom-right, with the smaller warship in the centre. Finally the tramp-steamers . . . err . . . steaming along!

They're all quite crude and finish is poor with a khaki wash on most and a stab-and-hope paint scheme on the two prime vessels, these would have been pretty unsellable after the war finished, but in the high-austerity of wartime, if stuff like Forrest Toys was beyond your budget, these would have filled a niche at Christmas, and very patriotic!

Another shot of the carrier group, no German or Italian vessels were spotted in the editing of this post . . . see previous posts! Given the - one each of the two biggies and two each of everything else - vessel-count; possibly the contents of a full, single-set?