Certainly, it was [arguably] the most
successful, and despite a few hiccups . . . survives today, as a French-owned
brand with a tenuous link back to French
Hornby or French Dinky, and would
survive for longer - if it went final tits-up tomorrow - through the many
clones coming out of mile-long factories in Szechwan and Guangdong!
Ancient and modern . . . little and large!
Although several of the components are
vintage, especially the boiler, it has been put together with the modern bolts,
which contrary to my previous comment in the preceding post aren't cross-cut
Phillip's, but small (3 or 4 mil') hex-drives.
The racing car is built to a vintage plan
but seems to be mostly recent components, or at least components I recognise
from my childhood Meccano - 1960/80's, while the 'plane would seem to be
referencing Tin-Tin's, and thus is
probably from a larger French set?
Some more shots of both.
Some more small pieces and a wounderful
vintage aeroplane which has a many model-specific parts or 'shapes' as the Metalcraft Spirit of St. Louis in the previous post, something I have to
confess I wasn't aware of.
We had tons of yellow/blue, our cousins
inherited a multi-drawer cabinet of red/green heavy-gauge vintage, and while I
knew there were the odd specialist part (the motorway-construction and army
sets in the 1970's had a pre-formed lorry-cab I think?), this is quite a
specific model, of a De Havilland Moth? Hawk, Puss . . . Tiger?
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