Theo van der Weerden sent me this a while ago,
and it's interesting for two reasons, firstly it shows the other (or 'some
more') figures to go with the road workers we looked at here and followed-up here, secondly
it ties them into Tootsietoys,
although Tootsie' were primarily
die-casters and may well have bought the figures in, so the possibility they
are/were originally Pioneer remains.
Also the third figure (with clipboard) has
some similarities with one of the sets of ground-crew, which may tie them (the
flyboys) into Tootsie' too? Although Tootsie' may itself be only a 'bought
brand' these days, I'm not sure who owns the brand.
When Britains
finally died and the assets were broken up, the Asian toy giant Tomy-Takara bought the branding and the
farm/zoo tooling (or elements of it), which is why the US pretend Britains have that mouthful of a brand
'wuhabritain', the attached image is the current carding of spare
tractor/harvester drivers, from Tomy,
who still use the last common iteration of Britains
official logo.
Brian Berke had purchased them for a
project he's working-on, for which there will be one or two posts in the
fullness of time here, but they are in the long-queue at the moment, maybe for
the autumn or winter, there's a lot of nostalgia wrapped-up in them!
Note the painted-overalls are designed to
tie-in with the main tractor brands (most are made in the same factories, they
just change the body-shells), we see here New Holland, John Deer, Massey Ferguson
and Claas/JCB I think/suspect. When you spend £180k or whatever it is these
days, you get a free set of corporate overalls.
I was
that guy in red, I was dead-proud of my MF 'body-suit', it zipped right up the
front so you could take a pee behind the hedge (or the tractor wheel!), had elasticised,
wooly sleeve-cuffs, but loose trouser-legs to go over work-boots, or inside
welly's and was made of something pretty tough as it lasted for years and was
second hand when I got it - well, when
your uncle gives you his old tractor, he gives you his old overalls!
Thanks to both Brain and Theo for the shots,
it's all grist to the mill, and all appears here, eventually!
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