Central Fire Station
Playset
1963 (made)
1963 (made)
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Tinplate two storey building representing a fire station. It has three spring operated folding doors to front and an open back, which reveals three lithographed rooms to the upper floor - a canteen, operations room and a workshop with a plastic staircase and a firemans pole linking the upper floor to the ground floor, the latter with a tiled floor printed design for the parking of vehicles. The Fire Station is contained in a complete illustrated card box. There is also a folded printed cardboard High Drill Tower which is a freestanding structure, with plastic ladders inserted into the windows. Other contents comrpise original accessories supplied with the set including three boxed NFIC (Hong Kong) plastic vehicles - #3033 Karrier Ambulance, #892 Fire Chiefs Car and #891 Fire Truck. The original Mettoy instruction sheet for the Fire Station (folded) is also included. Various plastic accessories consist of fireman figures, tables, chairs, a workbench, chimney and a small quantity of tools.
Object details
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Parts | This object consists of 15 parts. (Some alternative part names are also shown below)
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Title | Central Fire Station (manufacturer's title) |
Materials and techniques | Pressed lithographed tinplate, printed card and paper, injection-moulded plastic |
Brief description | Playset, Central Fire Station, Mettoy Playcraft, 1963 |
Physical description | Tinplate two storey building representing a fire station. It has three spring operated folding doors to front and an open back, which reveals three lithographed rooms to the upper floor - a canteen, operations room and a workshop with a plastic staircase and a firemans pole linking the upper floor to the ground floor, the latter with a tiled floor printed design for the parking of vehicles. The Fire Station is contained in a complete illustrated card box. There is also a folded printed cardboard High Drill Tower which is a freestanding structure, with plastic ladders inserted into the windows. Other contents comrpise original accessories supplied with the set including three boxed NFIC (Hong Kong) plastic vehicles - #3033 Karrier Ambulance, #892 Fire Chiefs Car and #891 Fire Truck. The original Mettoy instruction sheet for the Fire Station (folded) is also included. Various plastic accessories consist of fireman figures, tables, chairs, a workbench, chimney and a small quantity of tools. |
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Production type | Mass produced |
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Credit line | Given by Mettoy |
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Other number | 6259 - Model number |
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Accession number | MISC.57-1963 |
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Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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