A sizer with a Hong Kong machine, from the
previous post, to the left, the cereal - and other - premium in the middle and
a Tito Elf-Tyrell on the right, the Tito is the odd-one-out here; being a
soft polyethylene to the 'styrene of the other two.
As I say, we've looked at these before, and I put a couple of them together, properly, at
the time, so I've just emptied the bag for a quick shot to get across the
part-count (+/-13) and colour variation (at least eight colours or shades).
I will return to these again in a year or a
few, but not until I've sourced more pale-blue, orange and white examples!
Bonnet-numbers indentified so far are 2, 5,
22 and 28, but there are no vehicle types marked on them, so whether you got
that from the packet-artwork or kid's comic adverts/publicity material or just
have to guess them I don't know?
Tito's Ice Cream premiums, reading from the left and following the
bonnet-numbers system with advertising moulded-on in raised-relief (in brackets), we have;
11 -Tyrell-Ford (Ford-ELF-Goodyear-Champion)
14 - McLaren-Ford M19 (Ford-Gulf-Goodyear-Champion-Yardley-Lockheed)
3 - March-Ford 721 (Ford-ELF-Goodyear-STP)
Which may mean these are Formula Ford? I
seem to recall there was such a thing, although I recognise the Tyrell-Ford as
what we called an Elf-Tyrell when we were kids, I'm sure it's the same one
which got the short-lived (and destroyed the opposition before being banned)
6x6 conversion and they were both Formula 1?
Each comes as the same number of
parts/basic components on a frame-runner, probably in a baking-paper envelope,
and I assume there must be at least a forth model out there somewhere, maybe
more?
Close-ups of two of the rear wings with
their relief-moulded advertising. So - if I recall correctly - The 11-car
should be a sort of Prussian-blue, the 14 a pale-blue with orange stripes (?
The sports-saloons' famously were!) and I don't know on the three, lots of cars
had the STP ovals?
2 comments:
I had a number of the cars you identify as cereal premiums. I bought them individually in packets (very much cereal premium style) from a seaside toy shop. There were a couple of different designs, and the same design could appear in different colours.
nb, bought in the late 1960s.
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