Large Road Vehicles
The British range of Tri-ang large scale pressed steel vehicles were produced from the early 1930s through until the mid 1970s. To the casual onlooker or collector in the world of old toys, these toys (not models!) are of no great interest, are crude by modern standards and only a few different types were ever made or so it would appear.
Everyone has seen the red-bonneted tipper lorry, the bonneted Shell tanker, breakdown lorry and the London Transport double decker bus.
To most people this was all the range consisted of with a couple of cranes and a Puff Puff railway engine or two thrown in for good measure. The actual selection of pressed steel vehicles including the different types of cranes and trains consisted of over 200 different types. There were actually nine different series of lorries together with a series of buses, cranes and trains. Tri-ang was one of the largest toy producers in the world and their range of toys reflected this.
The nine different ranges of Pressed Steel Toy Lorry were:
| Metal lorries | made between 1930 and 1937 | |
| Bedford’s | made between 1937 and 1956 | |
| 200 Series | made between 1948 and 1957 | |
| Diesel Series | made between 1955 and 1960 | |
| 300 Series | made between 1957 and 1963 | |
| Thames Traders | made between 1959 and 1966 | |
| Junior Diesels | made between 1958 and 1967 | |
| Regal Roadsters | made between 1962 and 1966 | |
| Hi-ways | made between 1966 and 1973 |
- (All dates are approximations)
The pressed steel (and occasional wooden) trains and pressed steel cranes were made during the same lifespan as the lorries, although up until the mid 1950s, most trains were made of wood. The steel buses were manufactured from 1957 up until around 1970. In the Pressed Steel Lorry range there were delivery vans, petrol tankers, breakdown lorries, different types of articulated lorries, rocket launchers, car transporters, circus lorries, mobile shops, Army, RAF and emergency vehicles. There was quite a vast range of these vehicles and the cab types tended to reflect the designs of those in real life at that particular time that they were being manufactured. All nine different ranges large roadvehicles Tri-ang produced you can find on the below link Triang NL.
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