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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.
Showing posts with label Locomotives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Locomotives. Show all posts

Sunday, April 19, 2020

T is for Toot-Toot!

Back to novelty-corner for a prime piece of post-war, plastic play-thing! It's the ultimate blow-job ". . . just put your lips together and. . ."

Kleeware novelty whistle, I suspect it is actually from a US design, a lot of Commonwealth's novelties had a 2nd life over here, and the locomotive while possibly needing to be that long for the purpose of getting the note out (doubtful; there are whistles in all sizes) is more of a US type 'iron horse' with the cow-catcher (they didn't catch them, they momentarily eviscerated them and exploded them out of the way!) and the enclosed engine-driver's cab?

A 0-6-4 is an odd configuration too, but it is primarily a novelty whistle! I love this stuff; it's ephemeral but it survives! The blue one is a stable polystyrene, but the green one (presumably an earlier batch) is a less stable phenolic resin or celluloid-type plastic.