C is for Crescent Railway

I thought I'd posted the correction to these some time ago, but I can't find the post/link, however, I have now updated the three existing mentions I knew about and added the Crescent tag, to what was 'believed' to be Hornby.

The history of which is in those posts, or one of them, I think? But it was always a question mark, with the various railway modellers at Sandown Park not being sure either!

 

Anyway, we're back to them with a full correction and a full set, plus some, courtesy of Jon Attwood. And the above are his full set of the Crescent (not Hornby!), soft plastic figures as included in a set of die-cast scenic accessories for HO/OO model railways.

 

But of even more interest is this pale blue figure which Jon donated to the Blog, look at them now . . . the darker blue of Crescent cowboys, and the paler blue of Crescent-for-Kellogg's cowboys! It's almost blindingly obvious once you know . . . once you know what you are looking at! It's like Lik Be having an LB logotype, whatever the mule-stubborn ones want to hang-on to.

 

And not only does it become obvious, but then you can go back to the primary sources and find it was there all along, in the 1960 catalogue! 11 years ago I first posted them as question-marks, and in all that time no-one, not even me, came up with the answer, so much gratitude to Jon, for doing so and filling in the gaps!

And it's a nice coverage of railway staff, representing a porter/baggage-handler, a train/platform guard, driver/engineer/grease-monkey and a stationmaster/ticket inspector-collector. But quite oversized at 25mm+ with thick bases, compared to everyone else's OO-gauge people, and positively dwarfing any true-HO-gauge figures.