ITC is for the Ideal Toy Company but . . .

. . . ICT is for the Ideal Cannon Truck! Except these are Kleeware!

Lucky score on evilBay the other day, and off a friend so all the sweeter to get some cash to a mate! They needed a bit of hot-water treatment and while I was at it they all got a scrub as they were made of that plastic late Bergen soldiers are made of and were filthy with leachate as if they had been weathered with oxide-orange powder and then oiled!

Now quite the parade but only a half-company, they nevertheless tick a box in the collection and one here I guess! Imported by Kleeware from Ideal (there's nothing between them bar the packaging - I was bidding on the searchlight truck recently, but not seriously - too big!) and presented as targets in a shooting game . . . Chris Smith reminded me they were in Plastic Warrior a while ago, so it really is only box-ticking on this one!

The middle one has a permanent headache, due to having had his helmet split through with a big axe . . . or something! And the jacket is more Nazi tank-commander than cannon-fodder?

Kline's store catalogue from 1968 USA has the whole caboodle for five dollars, which - back in the day - was less than two quid, a lot less! Full company is six figures, six cannon-balls, a huge 'Big Bertha' cannon and the truck which is used for other toys with body-changes or trailers, the canopy hasn't been included in the shot, I think the PW one had it present?

"I'll 'av yer'rover yer' top'evy wazzock!" 

Obviously one-sided relief flats with a reinforcing bar at right-angles to the figures, and around 120mm, manufactured in the previously mentioned soft polyethylene.

Added 14-12-21 - The same set in its British catalogue guise, to all extents and purposes the same set as the US one, but with the canvas-tilt visible, which wasn't included in the Kline's image. As there is nothing to tell when these turn-up on evilBay, it would appear to be shipped product rather than mould-share, which would have been expensive for one party or both, depending on how they agreed to share the tariff bill! Also with the Kleeware catalogue ten-years older than Kline's, one wonders in which direction that traffic was?