Actually it's called a dump truck but hey!
I was raised to think a small 'puddle-jumper' was a tipper-truck and
'dumper-trucks' were to be found in quarries and on major road-works; despite
the double-axles and heavy cargo compartment, this is a little Ford puddle-jumper! Don't all write-in
- it's childhood versus semantics!
Looking a lot like some late Marx vehicles of the same type (but not
their dump truck which was a big, yellow, 'proper' one!) and various OK/Lucky types, it's actually branded to
one of those typical Hong Kong (or Japanese) logo's which could mean anything
if you don't know the company and while most Japanese companies have been
sorted, most HK ones haven't!
As with a lot of these Hong Kong toy
vehicles, the attempt to reproduce the functionality [in plastic] of their
[mostly metal] western counterparts led to lots of easily breakable small or
delicate parts, and while scaling-up helped somewhat, I'd hate to think how
much of Christmas would have passed before the tipping mechanism on this would
have been busted if it hadn't survived to the present day in its box?
Note that this toy's motor housing has the
brass eyelet-rivets, the same system found on the TAT bren-gun carrier I looked at here ages ago (I think? I know I
have one and I'm pretty sure it was Blogged!), TAT is another brand with a Lucky
cross-over, and like Lucky late TAT stuff is battery operated, but
re-branded to Stratco in their
packaging.
The brand-mark for the tipper, your choice
is as good as mine, although as the 'S' is smaller, I'm guessing we may be
limited to a choice of four; HIS, HSI, IHS or ISH! And - like TAT, the logo is on the base-plate as
well as the packaging.
Another 'anonymous' outfit only known as NN produced a two-axle version of this truck in various body-styles and with a heavy bumper/fender added at the front.
