Here's some info from a book translated from the Argentinian about Bichi/ Chibi, the toy fiorm behind the Argentinian version of the Project SWORD Moon Prospector, Explorador Planetario.
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BICHI SRL: plastic and metal cars (c 1958 - c 1972).
Almost by chance or as a deserved reward for persistence,
antiquities hunters found at the end of the decade
we see with what precision, attention and responsibility are armed
and they test all the vehicles that make up the beautiful and
showy range of shots produced by Bellotti Hnos.
The factory remained active until the eighties. See
sugar yourself and Saic Escoda; photography and toys.
BEM: military panoplias (c 1942 - c 1967).
Who can resist the beauty of panoplies, their
colorful pieces displayed in lithographed cartons that
invite you to be another for a while? It is quite difficult to find them without
use or in acceptable conditions in the antique market; the
combination of its fragility - own of the materials with
what they are made of - and the kind of game they provoke
its irremediable deterioration. However, some of its
components - such as revolver holders - are often
Save yourself from being thrown in the trash. Who possibly
was the first to manufacture them in Argentina, the Austrian
Benzion Mamber (born 1892), arrived in our country around 1937.
As soon as he arrived, he devoted himself to his specialty, the elaboration
of trophies and insignia, costumes and military attributes, but little
Then, in 1942, he began to manufacture panoplies
military, when discovering that the item predicted a certain development
commercial. Employed national raw materials - cardboard, gender,
leather and wood - to make their first models:
uniforms and badges of soldiers, police and firemen.
Around 1950 he left the modest premises of Correa 2516 for
move to a larger plant, in Obligado 4199, where
the facilities were rationally organized in different
sections and included a large deposit of raw materials.
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by girls who exchanged letters, figurines, molds, and
pictures of children's actresses who triumphed in Hollywood.
Some twelve years later, already in Buenos Aires, Bili has set up a
workshop in the bottoms of his own house, in Tres Arroyos 538, for
Become a doll maker There he produces a baby of
pasta that bears his name, whose delicacy and tenderness do not reveal at all the more than precarious conditions in which
she works -helping in the process of cooling the newly molded pieces with two household refrigerators-, but rather
rather they renew that dazzlement of childhood.
In the late 1940s, Del Giorgio and her husband, José
Novick, they are associated with Sergio Timone (see the magical brain)
and the precarious workshop is transformed into the Bili Dolls Factory.
In order to expand and consolidate production, they reorganized
space in different sectors: on the ground floor they placed a
of the armed group, they assigned a specific area for
combers and enabled a separate place to locate the milling machine, while the first floor was used for painting.
During those years, in addition to Bili, they made a doll called Graciela, one meter tall, head and limbs
of pasta and body of cloth, which they sold almost exclusively to
the Harrod's store. Bili, her most characteristic piece, is a baby
26 cm, body of five pieces and molded hair; enough with
see it once so that it takes root in the memory. Design
General was based on a model that by those years was well known both in the United States and in England.
Of the twenty thousand that came to be manufactured annually during
the fifties, most have painted eyes, but
they also came out with movable plastic eyes; likewise
They produced white skin or brown skin. Each copy
He left the factory marked with a blue stamp applied vertically on his back, in which his name is read, and dressed in
a set of pyrenean cloth, besides carrying its corresponding label (there was a luxurious series with a more
elaborated and another series that included the baby in a bassinet
cardboard covered in plastic).
By 1953, about twenty-five employees were working in the factory; in May of that year the Bili brand was registered (a
name of Sergio Timone and José Novick). Until that moment
they used unregistered marks, quite usual neglect in these
some inexperienced pioneers who made their way by force of
of ninety a stock composed of several dozen boxes with
remains of what had been a toy factory: parts of
cars, incomplete parts, friction mechanisms and hundreds
of decals. They were the vestiges of the firm Bichi SRL, founded
around 1958 by Augusto Bianco and the brothers Enrique, Luis and
Carlos Chialchia, who produced cars, mainly friction,
in a workshop on Calle Cabrera 3931, and reached its greatest popularity in the sixties.
During a fleeting period, collectors, always attentive
to the rewards that the outbreaks of this
improvised urban archeology, they knew how to take advantage of the reappearance of classic cars, revived in all their splendor to be
armed and decorated, as before, with the decals steamed.
In May 1960, the firm, which was under the heading Bianco &
Inc. Collective Society, registers the Bichi brand and throughout
the decade will produce plastic and metal pieces, among which
stand out the curious Murcielauto and Murciel-Lancha, appropriations well Argentinean of the bativehículos -well thought
to avoid the payment of royalties-, the Cipol Agent's car and the
Planetary Explorer Bichi (later Chibi). In the middle of the years
seventy, society -as it was SRL- reinvents itself as
Chibi SRL. Integrated by the same owners, it continued to elaborate
almost the same models but with the Carlos V and Chibi brands in
its plant of Combet 1243, José León Suárez, province of Buenos
Aires, until 1982.
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During a fleeting period, collectors, always attentive
to the rewards that the outbreaks of this
improvised urban archeology, they knew how to take advantage of the reappearance
of the classic cars, revived in all their splendor to be
armed and decorated, as in the past, with the steam decals.
In May 1960, the firm, which was under the heading Bianco &
Inc. Sociedad Colectiva, registers the Bichi brand and throughout
the decade will produce plastic and metal pieces, among which
stand out the curious Murcielauto and Murciel-Lancha, appropriations
well Argentines of the bativehicles-well thought
to avoid the payment of royalties-, the Cipol Agent's car and the
Planetary Explorer Bichi (later Chibi). In the middle of the years
seventy, society -as it was SRL- reinvents itself as
Chibi SRL. Integrated by the same owners, it continued to elaborate
almost the same models but with the Carlos V and Chibi brands in
its plant of Combet 1243, José León Suárez, province of Buenos
Aires, until 1982.
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