THEN AND THE ART OF WAR Redux

I posted this some time ago, but its such a wonderful toy, I thought it worth flagging up again.

Here's the first part of an occasional series highlighting Army toys from the sixties. With the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, the Cold War and countless other battles in the news, toymakers seized the opportunity to put guns and tanks in every boys hand. Alongside the Topper Rocket Base, was the Armoured Battalion, clearly from the same stable of toy design. With atomic bombs and nuclear shells on the horizon, Topper showed us what a full on heavy howitzer and missile launching half track could do.
Although non motorised, these toys were tough and durable and like the Titan rocket, packed quite a punch.