trying to find info on these models

[gray07]

1915 model T copyright 1952

1908 buick- copyright 1952

iam trying to figure out what size they are and some of them who made them, i know some were made by Gowland & Gowland, a couple were made by action minatures but what about the rest

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[gray07]

No info on this one

Fire wagon

1914 studz bearcat copyright 1952

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[gray07]

No info

Gowland & Gowland- 1910 studebaker electic

Action minatures

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[gray07]

Action minatures

no info

no info

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[sjordan2]

Highway Pioneers, (I think they were all by Gowland & Gowland). I had them all, and building them with my Father was how I got into the hobby. I think Revell also boxed them, and they'e around 1/32 scale. The figures, of course, look like they've had too much Human Growth Hormone.

I built Gowland's very cool stagecoach, Roman chariot and Queen Elizabeth II's coronation coach, all with nicely detailed horses.

I also had the large-scale Gowland Maxwell pull toy (another Revell reissue), which is shown in the "obscure kits" thread on this forum.

There's some background in the intro paragraphs of this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revell

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[Eshaver]

Skip, Gowland and his wife Gowland comprised what today is Revell of Santa Monica California in the Venice Beach area of the city . They were origionally released in 1950 as the first all plastic assembly kits the company ever manufactured . When the molds were retired about 1953, they were stored with out a Cosmolene coating on the metal . Still, the molds were nearly destroyed in their entireity as the salt air from the Pacific wasn't kind to a canvass tarp . I don't know how many were saved when Mini craft re- released the kits sometime in the 60's . I have a origional Gowland and Gowland from 1951 . Ed Shaver

[ZTony8]

I have 2 sets of those Highway Pioneers,mostly unbuilt in the gift set boxes.One set was given to my Grandfather and one set to my Dad as Christmas gifts in about 1953.

[gray07]

Now need to find someone that would treasure them, iam not into this old of cars

[Mercman]

No info

Gowland & Gowland- 1910 studebaker electic

Action minatures

Look familiar.

I got this ojne before I was a year old. The only model my Dad ever built. It was a Revell Hi-Way pioneer. Still have it.

[my66s55]

Now need to find someone that would treasure them, iam not into this old of cars

The builders at this site might want them for parts. http://automotion.myfastforum.org/ I think Tony T is an admin there, but I could be mistaken

[Art Anderson]

Gowland & Gowland were a pair of English brothers who created the tooling for these, IIRC. They first had them produced by a company called "Globe" in Southern California which was owned by Irvin Athearn (who later renamed that company Athearn Trains--becoming the principal maker of HO Scale model railrroading kits and locomotives).

Gowland & Gowland tooled a number of horse-drawn vehicle kits as well, such subjects as fire apparatus, a stagecoach, Roman chariot and the British Royal Coronation Coach, in addition to a large line of 1/32 scale, very simple model kits of antique cars primarily from the pre-World War One era. These were first molded by Revell, Inc., then a pioneering maker of plastic toys. Revell was founded by Lew Glaser and his wife Royle in the late 1940's. Revell marketed these car kits as "Highway Pioneers", first in acetate plastic (which warped terribly over time but was considered shatterprooff, later in styrene well into the early 1960's.

Later on, Airfix, the English plastic model kit company, produced several similar 1/32 scale kits which may have been tooled up by the Gowlands. At any rate, the Gowland tooling eventually went back overseas, and a number of those kits resurfaced, made in the Czech Republic.

Art

[sjordan2]

Gowland & Gowland were a pair of English brothers who created the tooling for these, IIRC. They first had them produced by a company called "Globe" in Southern California which was owned by Irvin Athearn (who later renamed that company Athearn Trains--becoming the principal maker of HO Scale model railrroading kits and locomotives).

Gowland & Gowland tooled a number of horse-drawn vehicle kits as well, such subjects as fire apparatus, a stagecoach, Roman chariot and the British Royal Coronation Coach, in addition to a large line of 1/32 scale, very simple model kits of antique cars primarily from the pre-World War One era. These were first molded by Revell, Inc., then a pioneering maker of plastic toys. Revell was founded by Lew Glaser and his wife Royle in the late 1940's. Revell marketed these car kits as "Highway Pioneers", first in acetate plastic (which warped terribly over time but was considered shatterprooff, later in styrene well into the early 1960's.

Later on, Airfix, the English plastic model kit company, produced several similar 1/32 scale kits which may have been tooled up by the Gowlands. At any rate, the Gowland tooling eventually went back overseas, and a number of those kits resurfaced, made in the Czech Republic.

Art

Hmmm. That's very interesting. It doesn't seem to gibe with the reference I posted above, which has Gowland as the originator and Revell as the US marketer that made these unsuccessful UK kits sell well in the US.

[Joker]

The builders at this site might want them for parts. http://automotion.myfastforum.org/ I think Tony T is an admin there, but I could be mistaken

Thanks for the link..been there for about 25 min..

James aka Joker

[gray07]

Thank you for the info.

[ZTony8]

The versions I have are molded in acetate and they haven't warped.Hard to believe,yes,but I looked at them a while ago and they're still straight after 57 years.