We're staying with friends in Germany and I've been checking out their Grandson's toy cars.
There's a nice Mercedes Matchbox trailer, different tractors, a Husky pick up with odd red plastic structures and Norev pick up (where's Norev from?).
Maybe the most interesting is the tin (in German blech) ambulance car. Did you have anything like that?
The game Spitz Pass Auf is what in the UK is called Mousie Mousie.
The white Husky with the red structure is a 'cheery picker' or elevator car. Its a bit crushed by the look, but the red part should extend upwards. Never been a fan of tin, even at an early age, so any odd tin toys fell by the wayside very early on, whereas I have almost all my original plastic childhood toys.
ReplyDeleteChecked the cheery picker. It does extend up ta Wote! Cheered me up so to speak!
Deleteor cherry picker even!
ReplyDeleteI had that Husky truck, with the elevating platform. It was the Ford F-350 Tower Wagon from 1968, and it re-used the plastic tower from the earlier Volkswagen Tower Wagon, based on the pick-up version of the Volkswagen van. I think it was for access to power and telephone lines.
ReplyDeleteThe blue truck next to it looks like the Matchbox Office Site Truck, which came with a small plastic hut for use on construction sites. Yellow plastic, with a green roof. Obviously missing from your example.
Norev is a French company - Veron spelled backwards. This being the surname of the founders.
Cheers Paul. The tower wagon is a new one on me. Cheers for the Norev info.
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