I've been after more of these for ages, but
what turned-up was a variation on what I was expecting! There are the W.Germany marked originals, the origin
of which is supposed to be Manurba but these days that could be open to correction,
then there are the Hong Kong copies, both of which come with moulded-on/in wheels
and separate wheel/axle assemblies, but these arrived with separate wheels and
metal axles, like a lot of other 1960's rack-toy jeeps and things.
This is them, the giraffe wagon is very
similar to my German one, and with two each of horse, elephant or camel as
draft animals it's reasonable to assume they are a complete set, I particularly
like the elephant-drawn ones which have a monkey and cat on their roofs
respectively. I think the orange one is the laundry wagon; it has a chimney and
t-shirt drying in the kicked-up dust . . . nice!
Here in the 1966 Wilton's catalogue, they are the same colour/wagon configuration as
the new sample, so we can be pretty sure they are the same set, and that the 'complete
set' assumption was correct!Whether it goes as far as six tools run in six
colours (to match the catalogue art!), but those colours only, consistantly, or
just coincidence I don't know, but I'll keep an eye out, and the evidence so
far would suggest so? Fifty-cents for the set - those were the days!
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