This maker produced many lovely hollowcast figures from the 1920’s up to the early WW2 years before turning to war production, after the war it split and neither company lasted long despite turning to plastic production. The range that I particularly like is their Air Raid Precautions one. It was produced to appeal to the sentiments of a British population bracing for heavy bombing of cities. The figures are all copies or adaptions the pictures produced for a set of cigarrete cards issued in packs sold by the Wills company. These cards came with the Wills or Ogdens packs. They accurately depict the then government’s early war preparations; warning the population to take seriously the fear of gas warfare introduced during the previous WW1. The set of gas masked firemen, always two would man a hose and the third to set the inlet hose to supply the water to the trailer pump, is particularly nice.

On the right are images of the cards (just a few of the set). All the figures in the range are shown except three depicting civilian ladies using a stirrup pump and a man (adaption of a zoo figure) carrying buckets; I have yet to aquire decent originals of these, but will add them when I do.

All of these figures are now hard to find in good condition.