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I never bought it the stall holder was curious of its origins, don't know what is inside but it's full and is well sealed, do the tops unscrew??
He's asking £12.50 if anyone wants it

fixer wrote:I never bought it the stall holder was curious of its origins, don't know what is inside but it's full and is well sealed, do the tops unscrew??
He's asking £12.50 if anyone wants it

Come on Reg, we all know what a stallholder would fill this with

Yes Reg, the tops do come off, as far as I know, they are just a tight friction fit and when new, would have been empty, so a previous owner has put something in the one you have shown us in your pictures, but as I mentioned earlier, these can be dangerous to Children as they were made of lead (probably should be a capital 'L' for Lead).

Ghosty.

tri-ang eh...i had a space toy set made by triang in the late 60s...all plastic...had all kinds of things...like a moon car and some super sonic jets...space rocket...bunch of space men that were like a gold chrome color...i see sets every once and a while on ebay...they can get pricey...anyone else have these spacetoys...they were called...spacex by triang

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:...these can be dangerous to Children as they were made of lead ....

Are you sure about that? Pure lead would be too soft and I would have thought these were getting a bit late for a lead alloy. (I have seen them in the past and always assumed them to be tinplate.)

Idris wrote:

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:...these can be dangerous to Children as they were made of lead ....

Are you sure about that? Pure lead would be too soft and I would have thought these were getting a bit late for a lead alloy. (I have seen them in the past and always assumed them to be tinplate.)

The one in the picture is tinplate, were they lead lined or more likely lead solder

The general condition of the one shown in the above pictures has the look of old food cans which were made of basic sheet steel, often called tin plate (but it isn't) and sealed with a lead based solder on the outside surface so I reckon that's what those toy milk churns are like, big tin cans designed to act as toy milk churns, but they do have Lead content in their manufacture and date wise, they were first used by TRI-ANG in another range of toys long before they were used for the Bedford milk lorry, I believe the name of 'TRIANGTOIS' as one word may be on the tin somewhere and 'Lines Bros' stopped using this form during 1927, so it seems a stock of them were found and fitted to just the Bedford lorry for the 1950 product line, as no other vehicle seems to have had them as accessories (unless someone has some evidence from catalogues to refute this).

Ghosty.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:TI believe the name of 'TRIANGTOIS' as one word may be on the tin somewhere and 'Lines Bros' stopped using this form during 1927, so it seems a stock of them were found and fitted to just the Bedford lorry for the 1950 product line...

If that can be proven, it's absolutely amazing!