This toy is my only pre-war tin airship. It has a spring inside the hull that spins the large plastic prop at the rear, causing the toy to "fly" in a circle. It still works! The dirigible is small, only 6" long, and it was made in Japan.
The manufacturer "KONO-KAKUZO" only made toys in the 1930s but it apparently considered aircraft to be so important in its output that its trade mark was a propeller. The Graf Zeppelin visit to Tokyo on its 1929 world tour inspired the firm to produce a number of replicas of rigid dirigibles, none of them realistic.
This "baby" is marked as the R-100. This represents one of two British rigid airships that were to carry passengers on long range routes that were to connect the then vast British Empire. The programme began in the 1920s. The R-100 made a trans Atlantic crossing to Montreal in October 1930. The registration G-FAAV is, surprisingly, correct!
Other Kono Kakuzo airship products included a larger example of the R-100, the "R-107" (a model of the R-101), and the Macon, or ZRS-5, a US Navy zeppelin lost at sea in 1935.
NB: Airship = Dirigible (the words are interchangeable),
"Zeppelin" - made by the Zeppelin factory in Friedrichshafen, uncapitalized, any airship with a rigid hull framework containing gas cells,
"Blimp" - non-rigid "pressure airship" with no internal support.