The communist takeover of mainland People's Republic of China inwards 1949 also brought a lot of refugees travelling to the nearby colonies of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau or Singapore. That meant rattling inexpensive labour to operate inwards factories together with this fact brought economical increase to all these regions.
One of the goods manufactured was plastic toys. Starting every bit early on every bit the 1950s, these inexpensive toys would croak far to Europe together with America together with would pose inwards serious problem other traditional toymakers.
Many of these Hongkongese toys were copied from British together with American models. In a high percentage, they are non marked other than "Made inwards Hong-Kong", together with hence identifiying them is quite difficult. The construct bring upward together with logo was shown oft inwards the box, but, every bit nosotros know, rattling few boxes go later on 10, twenty or thirty years. In improver to this, most manufacturers were rather small, together with around didn´t fifty-fifty used a construct name. Instead, they worked for around unusual distributors that would sell these items nether their ain brand.
This distributors were sometimes the ones that took the toys to Hong-Kong together with asked the local manufacturers to re-create them. Some british distributors that produced toys inwards Hong-Kong were: Telsalda, Clifford Series, Fairylite, OK, Emu Series, Laurie Toys... Classic toy manufacturers created minute brands for inexpensive toys, similar Cragstan from the U.S. of A. of America together with Woolbro, the inexpensive construct for Woolworth markets.
Some European makers had to instruct out out plastic toys, that were non profitable anymore together with developped to a greater extent than complex toys. Apparently the paradigmatic representative of this is Tri-ang, that started producing slot cars.
Some of these minor manufacturers truly progressed to croak independent, most notably Lucky Toys together with Blue Box.
There are non much details nigh this brand. Most companies that stimulate got survived to the acquaint 24-hour interval endeavour to enshroud their humble origins. Blue Box was founded inwards 1952 yesteryear Peter Chan Pui. They started making dolls merely presently they started producing toy cars, most of them copied from Matchbox, Corgi together with the balance of major European manufacturers, alone inwards plastic.
The balance of the storey is already known, European together with American makers would finally starting fourth dimension their ain factories together with facilities inwards Asia, to salvage costs over the years. Now it is non Hong-Kong anymore, merely China.
FACTS AND FIGURES:
- Name: TRANSPORT TRUCK together with FORK LIFT
- Scale: Around 1:55 together with 1:100
- Year: Around 1970
- Company: Blue Box (Hong Kong)
- Size: approx. vii cm
