Another of the shots sent in by Brian Berke
helps put them in context and as I've explained elsewhere, the third gunner
attached via the towing-eye may not be an official feature, but I have found
several over the years so either it's a common trope for owners to put one
there, or at least one of the factory/outworkers did so, with or without
permission!
Just as I haven't found green G1's, I have
yet to find any G2's in yellow or the pinky-oranges.
A standard US-style, cold war G.I. with the
old M1 piss-pot and a fatigue-jacket; still only a torso though, it's nice to
see the armed forces of Toyland providing such important work for
double-amputees!
The sample size is greater because they
were more recent, so more turn-up! The weird thing about them is that although
individually they seem to be a dense ethylene, when you shake a handful they sound
like dice or gambling chips, as if they were a harder styrene polymer, I
suspect a propylene?
Also if you compare the index card with the
G1 sample, you'll see that this one is definite about jeep-drivers, but has a
question mark (added at some point) over Kositoy,
the G1's were the opposite, except it was 'pilot'!
The cards were mostly written in the 1990's
as I was hoovering-up this stuff at shows and car-boot sales and will reflect
my knowledge at the time, with recent developments it's now clear both types
are KS-Kositoy-Kamley Industrial Co.
Ltd., with the G1 the earlier and the G2 the later. And . . . yes; that
reads Hong Konk!
Now known to be brand/brand-mark/s of Kwong Shing - added to tags.
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But is it Giant
No; the earliest KS-coded generics probably didn't appear until ten years after Giant had ceased to be as a going
concern, possibly as long as 14 or 15-years after and there are no Giant-recognised items or pieces in any
of Kositoy's sets.
