ARE THERE NO WORKHORSES? TOY INDUSTRIAL VEHICLES

In your post 21 Carrots, you mentioned one of the two friction toys looking like a made-up design, while the one being ridden by Bugs Bunny was more realistic.

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This could be a made-up design, or it could be a real vehicle. Hidden away in factories, warehouses, industrial plants, railway goods sheds (freight depots), airports, and down mines, are many odd vehicles that the public never get to see. Some never venture outside.

These vehicles sometimes pop up in the Secret Underground Lair of a movie Super-villain. Especially in spy movies from the 1960s and 1970s; or science fiction films, in a futuristic city or lunar base.

Being intended only for industrial use these vehicles have a job to do, and there is no need for them to look pretty, unlike normal road vehicles. So basic, boxy designs are common. Driver comfort is not important either. Some do not even give the driver a seat.

Here are a few examples of toy versions, mostly from Dinky.

Dinky 27g (later 342), Motocart, 1947-53. Three-wheeler with tipping body, and standing driver.

Dinky 14a (later 400), BEV Electric Truck, 1948-53. Basically just a flat platform with a standing driver.

Dinky Dublo (Double O, the model railway scale) 076 Lansing Bagnall Tractor and Trailer, 1960-64. Small tug, with baggage trailer, used for moving luggage at railway stations. Additional trailers were available separately.

Tonka Ser-vi-car, large pressed steel toy with tipping body. This is based on a design by the Cushman company.

I either had one of these, or something very similar, in the 1960s.

Four photographs, all from Worthpoint.

Paul Adams from New Zealand