the T.N. B-47

[grwebster]

I don't collect non- Yone branded Jap tin but this one was went for little money {<$100} in a French auction and is in great shape.


The cockpit is very unusual and I wonder if an early XB-47 prototype design may have had this type side by side cockpit layout?

[Tone]

Oddly enough, that one is in a 1957 Canadian Sears Simpson catalog (see web site Wishbook Web). I thought that the metal strip holding the fuselage halves together created the side-by-side flight deck windows.

Line Mar's realistic B-52 named Flagship Nardina appeared in US Sears book that same year. The serial numbers on the tail are one number apart and the lithography pattern is similar. I think that "Nikko Gangu Kogyo" made tin toys for both TN and Line Mar Toys - I would like further elaboration and confirmation from somebody who knows the real story!




I think that the Blue Strato Jet (that looks much more like the Dash Eighty) is an early version of an automatic-action battery toy jet plane. There's also a remote control variant.

[grwebster]

I forgot to mention mine has a battery compartment but is not controlled.

[fliegerii]

That T.N. Stratojet was the one of Frederic. I remember it, because I was the lower bid with 100,- Euro.....

I finally decided not to go higher, since I have strong doubts about the shape accuracy...

[grwebster]

Chris, you should have no further doubts, it is not accurate, just amusing and in superb condition. He had an excellent Convair 404 on auction yesterday.

[fliegerii]

Yes, saw it.