Londontoy was a part of Webster Air Products of London Ontario. Previous post here. The company was started to build air compressors, spray guns and associated equipment, but during WW2, they opened a subsidiary to make diecast toy cars, trucks etc. Another site attributed this to the restrictions on imports of non-essential items during the war which included children's toys. Webster was doing a lot of zinc die casting and the toys were a good use for the scrap. Londontoy lasted till 1949.
This airplane No 11 is identified as a Hawker Hurricane which is clearly not. Any guesses to what it actually is?
Here's some random info about Hawker Hurricanes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_MacGill
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ReplyDeleteI see I started a post on Elsie McGill some time ago- definitely a special peson.
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