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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

O is for Old Fashioned Cars

I finally tricked myself into getting six posts off Picasa, I can't tell you how long these have been ready for publishing, but while needing Blurb, the images have been edited and/collaged for about four+ years!

I announced they were due on a post on Moonbase Central about three years ago, since when they've done them again, twice, I think (I'll try to find the links) and Ed Berg has posted some too. While the article folders have been on the desktop 'ready to go' several times and quietly put back in 'My Pictures'!

But under the most tenuous of links with the previous post, we're kicking off with these Huilor premiums. Huilor is a manufacturer/seller of cooking oil, and issued various premiums back in the day. These were made for them by Cle, Del and Injectaplastic, with one or two still debatable, but the similarity between the vehicles, suggests co-operation of some kind between the three makers/lines, who are all, also, connected to other 'novelty' stuff.

Fully marked on the undersides of the chassis (another connection between them all), and with me not knowing much else, further blurb would be superfluous, and strained, so I've just annotated the images with the base markings . . .

1908 Lion-Pergeot; 1913 Mercer Raceabout; 1928 isotta Fraschinni; 1930 Bugatti; Cle; Cle Tacots; Del; Del Tacots; Double Phaeton; Georges Richard Tonneau 1902; Gobron Brillie 1899; hispano Suiza Torpedo H68 1922; Huilor Premiums; Huilor Prems; Huilor Tacots; Injectaplastic; Injectaplastic Tacots; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Paris Vienne; Renault Course 1902; Sizaire et NNaudin Course 1906; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vieux Tacots;

1908 Lion-Pergeot; 1913 Mercer Raceabout; 1928 isotta Fraschinni; 1930 Bugatti; Cle; Cle Tacots; Del; Del Tacots; Double Phaeton; Georges Richard Tonneau 1902; Gobron Brillie 1899; hispano Suiza Torpedo H68 1922; Huilor Premiums; Huilor Prems; Huilor Tacots; Injectaplastic; Injectaplastic Tacots; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Paris Vienne; Renault Course 1902; Sizaire et NNaudin Course 1906; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vieux Tacots;

1908 Lion-Pergeot; 1913 Mercer Raceabout; 1928 isotta Fraschinni; 1930 Bugatti; Cle; Cle Tacots; Del; Del Tacots; Double Phaeton; Georges Richard Tonneau 1902; Gobron Brillie 1899; hispano Suiza Torpedo H68 1922; Huilor Premiums; Huilor Prems; Huilor Tacots; Injectaplastic; Injectaplastic Tacots; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Paris Vienne; Renault Course 1902; Sizaire et NNaudin Course 1906; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vieux Tacots;

1908 Lion-Pergeot; 1913 Mercer Raceabout; 1928 isotta Fraschinni; 1930 Bugatti; Cle; Cle Tacots; Del; Del Tacots; Double Phaeton; Georges Richard Tonneau 1902; Gobron Brillie 1899; hispano Suiza Torpedo H68 1922; Huilor Premiums; Huilor Prems; Huilor Tacots; Injectaplastic; Injectaplastic Tacots; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Paris Vienne; Renault Course 1902; Sizaire et NNaudin Course 1906; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vieux Tacots;

1908 Lion-Pergeot; 1913 Mercer Raceabout; 1928 isotta Fraschinni; 1930 Bugatti; Cle; Cle Tacots; Del; Del Tacots; Double Phaeton; Georges Richard Tonneau 1902; Gobron Brillie 1899; hispano Suiza Torpedo H68 1922; Huilor Premiums; Huilor Prems; Huilor Tacots; Injectaplastic; Injectaplastic Tacots; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Paris Vienne; Renault Course 1902; Sizaire et NNaudin Course 1906; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vieux Tacots; 
Early racing car

1908 Lion-Pergeot; 1913 Mercer Raceabout; 1928 isotta Fraschinni; 1930 Bugatti; Cle; Cle Tacots; Del; Del Tacots; Double Phaeton; Georges Richard Tonneau 1902; Gobron Brillie 1899; hispano Suiza Torpedo H68 1922; Huilor Premiums; Huilor Prems; Huilor Tacots; Injectaplastic; Injectaplastic Tacots; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Paris Vienne; Renault Course 1902; Sizaire et NNaudin Course 1906; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vieux Tacots; 
Paris-Vienna Rally car

1908 Lion-Pergeot; 1913 Mercer Raceabout; 1928 isotta Fraschinni; 1930 Bugatti; Cle; Cle Tacots; Del; Del Tacots; Double Phaeton; Georges Richard Tonneau 1902; Gobron Brillie 1899; hispano Suiza Torpedo H68 1922; Huilor Premiums; Huilor Prems; Huilor Tacots; Injectaplastic; Injectaplastic Tacots; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Paris Vienne; Renault Course 1902; Sizaire et NNaudin Course 1906; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vieux Tacots; 
This is the only Injectaplastic in my sample.
That tenuous link!
 
1908 Lion-Pergeot; 1913 Mercer Raceabout; 1928 isotta Fraschinni; 1930 Bugatti; Cle; Cle Tacots; Del; Del Tacots; Double Phaeton; Georges Richard Tonneau 1902; Gobron Brillie 1899; hispano Suiza Torpedo H68 1922; Huilor Premiums; Huilor Prems; Huilor Tacots; Injectaplastic; Injectaplastic Tacots; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Paris Vienne; Renault Course 1902; Sizaire et NNaudin Course 1906; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vieux Tacots;

1908 Lion-Pergeot; 1913 Mercer Raceabout; 1928 isotta Fraschinni; 1930 Bugatti; Cle; Cle Tacots; Del; Del Tacots; Double Phaeton; Georges Richard Tonneau 1902; Gobron Brillie 1899; hispano Suiza Torpedo H68 1922; Huilor Premiums; Huilor Prems; Huilor Tacots; Injectaplastic; Injectaplastic Tacots; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Paris Vienne; Renault Course 1902; Sizaire et NNaudin Course 1906; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vieux Tacots;
People will say they are copies of this, that or the other die-cast (Brum, Rio or Matchbox 'Yesteryears') but the fact is these were very popular when I was a kid, along with pictures, posters, printed tiles, crockery & mugs, matchbox/matchbook labels, place-mats, beer-mats and coasters, 3D wall plaques, pipe-rack, ash-try or pen & ink stand ornaments and etc . . . and they were all of real vehicles, so some similarity is always going to ensue!

Not there wasn't a lot of copying, we'll see some in the subsequent posts! I'm not sure if they came assembled or as kits? Another connection all these have is being polystyrene rather than the Polyethylene of some others, or the die-casts just mentioned (which we won't be looking at). And the French for 'Old Fashioned Cars' is Vieux Tacots (old clunkers) . . . Bonux next!

7 comments:

Jan Ferris said...

From your tags, I see they are all sized differently. They aLL look great, especially considering they are made from plastic and at the time probably weren't all that expensive. Nice finds!

Hugh Walter said...

What it is Jan, I don't know exactly what scale they are, so I tagged them for what they might go with? They are smaller than 1:48th, but not as small as the HO I've seen them described as, however US HO can be 1:64th (slot racing) so I took that as a marker!

H

Hugh Walter said...

Also - some of them need a bloody good clean!

H

Anonymous said...

Mercer, S-N and Renault are 1/43 to my knowledge.
Others might vary...
Yes Hugh, please try to give us some idea of the scale - just putting a coin next to the model can really help :)

Hugh Walter said...

I can't get too excited about the exact scale of old crocks! See my note on the next post - Bonux - They (the Bonux) are about the same size as Yesteryear's, but again - apart from having a few when we were kids - not something I follow, and for gaming, it shouldn't matter; they are all only markers, after all! These Huilor are several different scales.

H

Anonymous said...

I understand Hugh, just that I have about 1000 old racing cars in 1/43. Many early models are only represented by these plastic models, and they are just as good as old John Day models. With some experience and effort they can be taken to state of art level. But, scale matters before you decide to spend months before you reach the result. Yesteryears are each one in different scale and somewhere I have a list for each set. Most French and Spanish plastic cars are exactly in 1/43, while Polistil are in 1/45 (yes, Polistil='POLITOYS PLAST' also had some plastic kits. Look: https://www.carmodel.com/politoys-plast/polpl102/1-45/alfa-romeo/f1-60-cv-n-3-1911-missing-figures-and-gear-shift/63343).

Hugh Walter said...

I understand too, but this stuff is just not a priority for me! You know;

Toy Soldiers
Sci-fi/Space/fantasy figures
Cowboys & Indians
Farm & Zoo
Circus & Clowns
Other Civil Figures
Dinosaurs & Cavemen
TV/Movie figures/Cartoon Characters
Cake Decorations
Figural Novelties
AFVs
Space Ships
Scenics
Militaria
Civil vehicles
Other Toys, Games and pastimes
Other Cultural/Social Nostalgia

They're right down the list! And a coin would ruin the images! It would make them all look like fleaBay sales shots!

H