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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.

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

A is for Airfix Motorcycles

I've done a second update since I last updated in 2018, which I didn't announce here as it was only a few weeks since I'd previously done so! So if you haven't visited for a while, there's now plenty of new stuff there, including the third figure pose, previously mentioned but not seen.

http://airfixfigs.blogspot.com/2018/11/1940s-sometime-wwii-500-500m-501-502.html

2 comments:

FitzjamesHorse said...

This is really interesting (as is the link and pics). I would never associate Airfix with motorcycles.
More than 65 years ago on Thursdays my granny and Auntie Sheila took me into the city (Belfast) and always to Woolworths and those old fashioned counters where the sales people were in the middle.
One day and I still remember it. they bought me two motorcycles......one was red (silver rider with a cap like a USA motor cycle cop) the other was I think silver with a black helmeted rider.
The wheels were deatchable and the rders legs not fully rounded.As the motorcycles disintegrated over time I used the silver cop as a cavalry man on horse back.
I tended to give names to my soldiers and he was my favourite.
That is circa 1959-1965.
I have hunted that figure for 30 years. Part of collecting is recapturing those much loved figures.
About a year ago I found a yellow motorcycle in a cheap bag in the local Toy Soldier store.
Not quite like my 1950s figure but thanx to your post, it has an Airfix look to it.
I would always have asumed the Woolworths connection and uniform was American.
John

Hugh Walter said...

If you eMail Paul at PW (pweditor3@gmail.com) he's probably got copies of the colour re-issue of the early Airfix stuff, or may be able to provide you with a shot of that catalogue page?

H