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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
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.

Saturday, March 1, 2025

B is for Banner . . . and?

Also shot at Sundown Park in November, but not purchased (because I think I have them in the collection already), was this series of comparison shots between a clearly Banner-marked 'row crop' tractor, from the US and two probably British copies, of unknown origin, and both unmarked.
 




The Banner is larger, and has better sculpted tyre treads on the front wheels, it also has a towing hitch missing from the smaller copies. I don't know who made the copies, but when we saw a similar copy, it was more close (with tow-hitch and marked Made in England), and came stitched into a gift box, with Gilmark-copy vehicles, 'Bonnie Bilt' figures and a Bell gun, which probably rules them out of responsibility for these smaller ones?

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