As a kid, I used to travel to Dover to see my Grandparents. I remember with fascination, the sweet shop/newsagents that used to sit on BR London Junction concourses, mostly reminiscent of concrete pill boxes left over from the last war.
WW2 was big in the sixties, :Battle of Britain" "Where Eagles Dare" and TV shows like "The Freewheelers"
War toys were big too and I remember the big US toys like Tiger Joe and One Man Army. I remember the Battle Wagon -but was it an aircraft carrier or a battleship?
Almost forgotten was a series of British made naval vessels that came in a corrugated cardboard box with black and pale orange graphics. I had a twin pack with a grey styrene submarine that fired white plastic torpedoes with little lead weights in their tips.The other ship was what I assume was a North Sea oil tanker-to either protect or sink.
I have no other memories of these toys - apart from seeing others in the range in those aforementioned rail kiosks.
Both my ships were pale grey styrene and probably about 9 or 10 inches long. The submarine had a single spring loaded tube in the bow that was triggered by pushing the black or maybe grey styrene periscope cluster.
I've searched and searched online but can find no hint of what they were or who made them.
Do any of you jolly Moonbase readers remember owning these toys?
They were pretty drab unpainted hunks of brittle plastic and I have no memory of what happened to them. Maybe they stayed at my Grandparents and my cousins ended up with them?
Ah, still there is so much mystery in my life!
Cheers,
Lewis
Oz
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