Following on from British Missile models, I bought this loose Corgi Rocket Age Thunderbird Missile at the weekend. First released around 1958 with a trailer and land rover, the RAF Thunderbird was a precursor to the Bloodhound Missile. A single piece casting, with a plastic cap, it was a non firing toy.
See here: http://ilovecorgitoys.blogspot.com/2017/07/rocket-age.html?m=1
Around the same time an ebay purchase arrived in the shape of the Crescent Toys cap rocket. Ive had the launch trailer since I was a kid, but along the way, the rocket had become separated.
I was lucky enough to find the white fuselage rocket a few months back and now have the yellow rocket from the Civil Rocket Transporter too.
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-blast-from-my-past.html?m=1
Nice to see you’ve reunited the rocket with launch trailer Wotan!
ReplyDeleteNice rockets. There were certainly a lot of rocket and missile models around during the late 1950s and early 1960s, then they largely died out.
ReplyDeleteThunderbird was actually a British Army surface to air missile, made by English Electric, in service from 1959 until the mid-1970s. Something I have just noticed, the Corgi model has this Army weapon being towed by a RAF Land Rover, which is odd. The Corgi die-cast also lacks the jettisonable booster rockets attached to the main body, similar to those on the Bloodhound.
The Bloodhound was built by Bristol for the Royal Air Force, and was very similar in appearance to Thunderbird. It was in service until the early 1990s.
That rocket trailer and cab is spiffing Wote. Looks great. Well done on patiently putting things together. You seem to be skilled at that. As for the white missile that was a good spot too! That Rocket Age Gift Set its from is a cracker!
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