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Tinplate c.1930s. Known to produce a Tip truck and a Shell Tanker truck, as well as a Saloon car, which were all run by a small wind-up motor. Also purveyors of Cycles.     This model appears to have been made with commercial quality (CQ) sheet steel, which was not really suitable for 'deep drawing.' When it was pressed between the dies to make the contours of the saloon body, the steel tended to wrinkle at the points of greatest stress. Deep drawing sheets (DD quality) would have stretched better and avoided this characteristic, but this is a classic example of it. |
A.R.R., E.& O.E.
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