Flexing the plasticene a little further here's another bit of Trumpton merchandise [Trumptonalia!] and just the way I like my toys, large chunks of plastic.
Its the Trumpton Talking Fire Brigade by Bradgate [of Little Big Man fame I think].
There's a short clip on YT as well were you can hear the button-activated talking, the classic roll-call of the firemen. Its on one of those iconic watery-sounding mini-records buried somewhere deep in its workings driven by a think rubber band,
Following your post about Camberwick Green etc. I do wonder if they were inspired by S.G. Hulme Beaman's Toytown, (Larry the Lamb etc.) which was on the radio from the 1920s, and was later a TV series.
I enclose a picture from an old Toytown book. Hulme Beaman wrote and illustrated the original stories.
Just saw the post on Camberwick Green toy vehicles. I've got the toy vintage car that they used as Doctor Mopp's car. It is the one I had as a child that has somehow survived.
Here it is in the background with my Windy Miller scratchbuild.
I loved Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley when I was knee high. Gordon Murray's fabulous puppet trilogy.
Trouble is I can't remember which is which. Its a bit like Sago, Tapioca and Semolina for me!
As a reminder here's the iconic clown turning end credits of Camberwick Green on You Tube:
I don't think I had any toys. Maybe a Windy Miller soap.
Being a huge fan of plastic TV vehicles as well I was thrilled to see this superb Camberwick Green Farmer bell Tipper truck on Ebay. It was made by Marx. I saved the photos for my archive.
I'm pretty sure I never had a toy like this although I did have a truck full of plastoc milk bottles, which I've yet to visualise properly.
This Marx truck looks great though.
Did you have any toys or merchandising from Camberwick Green, Trumpton or Chigley?
Did you like the shows? I wonder if Gerry Anderson ever met Gordon Murray?
