The catalogue page wasn't the best image
and taking a screen-capcha hasn't reduced the quality much more, but it has
enabled it to grow a bit if you click on it.
The vehicles looked at below are down the
right hand side of the page, but I thought the left was worth a comment or two;
firstly if the bases of those road-signs are die-cast, it will be one of them
which was in that little lot of magnetic/magnetised civil stuff I picked-up at
Plastic Warrior's show a couple of years ago?
Secondly the aircraft are an odd mix, and
look very similar to those carried by Bonux/Bonus
washing powders, as B/B got a lot of their
premiums from other - known - suppliers/producers the Sam's may also be bought-in from Jou-Plast or Cle or
another, or they may be copies, or they may be the originals? There was so much
of this stuff around from the mid-1950's-mid-1970's.
So - the Sam Toys racing cars share the quixotic numbering of the military
range, with a longer line-code and sub-identifiers, the line code changes
between the three Grand Prix/Formula-1 cars and the five sports/endurance
'super cars'.
Above we see the first three under the
425-code;
425-1 - Maserati 2∙5 litre GP
425-2 - Vanwall Formula-1
425-3 - Ferrari 2∙5 litre GP
The next five carry the 426 prefix and
start back at a '1' for the model identification numbers;
426-1 - Mercedes
426-2 - Aston Martin
426-3 - Fiat Turbina
426-4 - Jaguar D-Type
It may not be a Ferrari, but it's still a
'proper car'! You can keep your Mercedes; taxi drivers use Mercedes in Ulm . .
. and in Bagdad!
426-5 - Renault Etoile Filante
This looks like it may have been a
speed-record entrant?
The vehicles were polystyrene with metal
axles and the earlier three racers were the more complicated, even 'detailed'
models (probably based on Dinky
cars), I'm not sure sure on the other five, but both the Fiat and the Renault
are unusual vehicles. Race numbers and plastic colours do vary as well.
Thanks again to Angelo for another interesting
post, and it doesn't stop here; I sent him a couple of made in 'ITALY' images
to ID, intending to add them here, and he sent back a second post! Which will
now be publishing, here at Small Scale World, in an
hour-and-a-half - local time!
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