Morris Minor Ute

Great Utes, both the scale model and the 1/1 version.

 

Note the block of wood, trouble with the handbrake cable ?

Standard Vanguard

 

This could be interesting is there much difference between the two toy makers with their design against the real Corporal rocket launcher.



I cannot remember if this is the Dinky or not. Had to upload direct from Windows Galleries and are images found on the Net sometime ago.



Cheers await the firing. Bang

wouldn't it be more prudent for them to park the missile and the drive away a short distance before lighting the fuse?

BVRT Vita-min 1300 Mini Cooper S

RVREVO The picture on my posts of a guy stood next to a missile is me just before it was fired off into the north sea, once the missile was firmly on the launcher, the erector in a war situation, would have gone to the handling area for another one.

Gunner Jim, well apart from the fact that all the working parts were driven by electric motors, including the wheels which had front and rear wheel steering, and of course there was not a big wheel half way along the carriage to lower the missile on to the launching platform then it was pretty much a fair copy of the 1.1 there are a number of things missing on the toy, for example on the 1.1 at the rear there were two stabilisers , once the missile was being taken to the vertical, it would not have helped if the wind was rocking it from side to side, also there was no towing hook on the real thing, as the launching platform and the erector didn't travel together, for the reason that the launching site and the handling area were often miles apart, the erector was really a shuttle service between the two.

This was after all a toy.

I could bore for Britain about the differences between Corgi and Dinky and the variations

There are of course a lot of differences between the Corgi and the dinky version apart from scale.

The very first toys had on the corgi nasty hard thin plastic wheels I have a set of four that I got from a smashed erector I aquired years ago,

"not a lot of people know that"

not a lot of people would know that retired military personnel are not allowed to talk about their military exploits for at least 25-30 years.

SRN1 Hovercraft prototype. 

RVREVO that lets me out then the photo was taken 53 years ago, my goodness I am getting old

Chris

 

 

Well I am truly off the hook Richard as it is well over forty years since I was in the Green Machine.

Lol I could tell you some stories too but I'm still bonded for another twelve years

Corgi version of the Morris Quad Tractor designed for towing the 18 and 25 pounder guns. First saw action with the 1939 British expeditionary forces in France at the start of World War Two. There were three versions starting with this one pictured below having now see through slit windows in the center doors. They appeared in the second version.



Corgi Morris Quad Toys.



The image below shows those little windows and are not really designed for sight seeing are they.



Another view of Corgi models replicating the Morris Quad third version.



The intentions were that the firing wheel traversing platform was to be carried on the top of the Limber for the 25 pounders. The other is that the canvas top of the Quad was to allow for Bren-guns and the like to be fired at the enemy. Probably used for air-defences too or just to get a glimps of the sun?

Below are the third version and these Morris Quads were made at Fords Geelong during World War Two.



Notice the improved windows and the rear wheel arches are the same as the Corgi Model Quad.

This one depicted below shows the front windows are somewhat different to the Ford built Quad and this one below has maintained the Morris original design. Then again Ford Australia sometimes drifted off with their interpretations of design outlines sometimes.