Searching the Wotan Archives this morning for a certain catalogue, I
came across a loose page in amongst the reams of Airfix, Matchbox and
other sundry booklets. My dad had always been a bit of a magpie and this was evidence of his acquisitive habits. A single page from an old Littlewoods mail order catalogue, the UK equivalent of Penney and Sears, he obviously saw something here that merited further study. Probably it was the rather excellent Corgi Rocket Age set on the first page, showing the Thunderbird and Bloodhound ground to air missiles. Judging by the pre-decimal prices the catalogue would have been around 1964-66 and almost certainly the Xmas edition. Also featured is the Merit Radio Station which was marketed as a Dan Dare product and a range of what look like Wells Brimtoy army vehicles.
The second side has the Ideal Satellite Launcher Truck, a large vehicle with flying spinners and a cool Missile Truck with darts and searchlight. Those were the days!
Excellent images. The Corgi models I recall were very good; I think there were others in the same series, I seem to recall a larger missile on a transporter.
ReplyDeleteYou DO dig this stuff up Wotan!
ReplyDeleteThe mighty ANTAR with Conqueror looks like the Rafael Lipkin vertion with the winch missing...interesting is that the two - presumably also RL - lorries are scale-ups of Wells Brimtoy with Lone-Star carrier crew...and the rare desert vertions...please excuse a mere toy-soldier collector but I think I'll have to go and lie-down down now..."deep Breaths...deep breaths...
'Sthink',,, the silence that attends being too excited to think!
ha,ha - thanks for the clarification Hugh. Ive got a Brimtoy catalogue and they dont feature in it at all, so i did wonder..
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