B is for British Rack Toy

I can't remember if this has ever been seen here? It was seen in One Inch Warrior, but that was not my example, which means there are others out there (I think I've seen a third at some point), and it's exactly the sort of thing to be found at the back of granny's junk/treasure drawer (from where house-clearers will tip it into a bin-bag and send it to landfill - I've seen them do it with more valuable stuff; medals, family photo's!), half as a memento of the coronation, half as a forgotten 'emergency' present!

It's a carded 'map' of the coronation route, pre-crowning, as the queen left Buckingham  Palace, and is enhanced with 'Euro-premium' style buildings of the Abbey at Westminster and the Palace, along with the coronation coach (least used - most modelled!) and two figures, a royal footman and a beefeater - yes, a 1:72nd'ish beefeater who missed both beefeater posts; that's how the cookie crumbles here sometimes - messily!

The two figures in close-up, they are a tat larger that the Airfix guards, but only a tad and can be described as 1:76-72nd with no guilt. The royal footmen are civilians I think, while the beefeaters are recruited from retiring SNCO's. not so much 'semi-flat' as 'stylised' I feel is the best way to describe them and pretty unique - the pair.

What caused me to purchase this, years ago and long before I noticed the two little figures to its left; the horses are semi-flat (closer to 'flat') but the riders have some body or substance to them and the wagon follows the pattern of all those Jean/Big/Manurba wagons or the cake decoration we looked at recently (which excited the Vichy as much as the Lutin bear! Non Ducor, Duco - quite Jovian Mr. Roffler [Gillebertus 36], don't you agree?!) but all glued together as a rigid model.