Wooden Pull-along
Tractor
Wooden
Pull-along Tractor with a substantial baseboard. The toy was
painted yellow, with red wheels and steering wheel, or in the reverse
colours of red with yellow wheels and steering wheel. The grille
was painted silver,
overlaid with an ESCOR label,
and the removable driver was blue or light green. Underneath the
baseboard was stamped
in an oval MADE IN ENGLAND ESCOR Reg
Trade Mark (145 mm).
Wooden Tractor and Trailer
Wooden Tractor and
Trailer. Tractor as above but red with yellow wheels and steering
wheel, and light green
driver (missing the label on the grille). Trailer hooked with tow
loop onto tractor, in similar colours. Four split pins set in
holes in the trailer bed held chains which could be hooked together to
hold a load in place. Similar stamps underneath tractor and
trailer. Believed to have been purchased new in about 1967 or
1968 (overall length 315
mm).
Wooden Pull-along Tractor
Wooden
Pull-along Tractor designed to be dismantled by undoing large nuts
holding all the pieces together. Red bonnet and seat on
a green baseboard. Yellow and unpainted wheels and green plastic
square nuts over the wooden axles to hold the wheels in place.
Blue spoked plastic steering wheel (driver missing) (150 mm).
A
boxed example, having knurled unpainted wooden nuts on the wooden
axles, while the box illustration showed plastic nuts with corrugated
edges. The removable man was painted blue with brown hair. There was an
ESCOR transfer on the grille, a Union Jack to the rear and a front hole
for a tow string.
Another
example, having white plastic wheel nuts and a brown plastic open
steering wheel with four spokes. The driver was green with green hair.
This
one had light blue plastic wheel nuts.
This
example had square green plastic wheel nuts and a light blue wooden
steering wheel.
This
example had faded pink plastic nuts, red painted wooden wheels and a
yellow wooden steering wheel.
Wooden Pull-along Tractor
Wooden
Pull-along Tractor of a different design in red with blue wheels and
green removable driver. The pull-along cord runs through the
front axle, up under the driver’s seat, through the driver and emerges
as a tuft of hair on the driver’s head. The rear wheels were more
elaborate than usual with turned detailing. Black solid steering
wheel was possibly made of rubber. No transfers have survived the
playwear and no stamp underneath. A large metal rear tow hook may
be original (163 mm including hook).
Large Wooden Pull-along Tractor
Large wooden
Pull-along Tractor with a blue baseboard, red bonnet, silver grille,
red seat, yellow wheels and yellow driver with a green hat. It
could be dismantled by unscrewing the red wooden nuts which held the
wheels in place, and others under the baseboard which held the bonnet,
seat and baseboard together. Under the baseboard was stamped in an
oval MADE IN ENGLAND ESCOR Reg Trade
Mark and a second stamp PATENT No 506842 (230 mm).
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