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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

J is for Junior Motor Assembly Plant

'A Codeg Production', so before they saw the light and became a contractor/jobber of licensed (and not so licensed sometimes, I'll bet!) TV-related and novelty stuff from the Crown Colony, they must have been manufacturers in their own right? This has been sat in Picasa since November 2017, so high-time I got it 'out there'.

A Codeg Production; Boxed Plastic Toys; Breakdown Lorry; Codeg; Cowan de Groot; Dime Store Toy; Dimestore Trucks; Instructions For Use; Junior Motor Assembly Plant; Pick-up Truck; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tanker Lorry; Tanker Truck; Wrecker Truck;
Did all toys come in red boxes once! Except at Christmas, of course, when they came in patterned boxes with holly leaves! Slightly misleading artwork gives the impression you will construct a whole fleet of eight-foot lorries, but covered by the blurb; against complaints.

Some of you may have heard this already; my mate JB once sold a Britains Garden kiddie's lawn-slide to a chap on feebleBay, who immediately gave him a negative feedback and complained it was a misleading description because it was a toy!

It was listed in the toy section, under vintage figures and Britains, sold for a few quid and was posted to another continent for less than a pair of shoes, what the f*** did he think he was getting? A ten-foot, polished-steel, piece of outdoor play-equipment - with postage - for less money than a shoulder of lamb! Terri-catta . . . lightweight Caribineri!

A Codeg Production; Boxed Plastic Toys; Breakdown Lorry; Codeg; Cowan de Groot; Dime Store Toy; Dimestore Trucks; Instructions For Use; Junior Motor Assembly Plant; Pick-up Truck; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tanker Lorry; Tanker Truck; Wrecker Truck;
The sum of the parts! If the artwork in the previous image is to be believed there would have been green parts as well. Also some of the blue pieces are a different shade, so it wasn't a case of dropping whole runners into the box, or even stripping runners or sections of runner, but rather picking from bins of assorted coloured pieces.

A Codeg Production; Boxed Plastic Toys; Breakdown Lorry; Codeg; Cowan de Groot; Dime Store Toy; Dimestore Trucks; Instructions For Use; Junior Motor Assembly Plant; Pick-up Truck; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tanker Lorry; Tanker Truck; Wrecker Truck;
Instructions; by today's standards this could be seen as a simpler toy for simpler times, one-and-three-part 'dimestore' trucks in a box, saves on glue huh?!! But suppose it was a crew-cab Toyota Hi-Lux with four clip-in body types? Suddenly it would be all 'modern' and OK!

A Codeg Production; Boxed Plastic Toys; Breakdown Lorry; Codeg; Cowan de Groot; Dime Store Toy; Dimestore Trucks; Instructions For Use; Junior Motor Assembly Plant; Pick-up Truck; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tanker Lorry; Tanker Truck; Wrecker Truck;
The design is similar to the lorries carried by Beeju, who did do some scaled-up versions I think, maybe they supplied these to Codeg if they weren’t making them themselves, if they are Codeg-manufactured, then definitely 'derivative'!

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