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A scarce boxed Mettoy #6259 tinplate County Fire Station. The tinplate two storey building measures approximately 48cm long, 22cm wide and 24cm high and has three spring operated folding doors to front and an open back which reveals three attractively lithographed rooms to the upper floor - a canteen, operations room and a workshop with a plastic staircase and a firemans pole linking the upper floor to the ground floor, the latter with a tiled floor printed design fir the parking of vehicles. The Fire Station is contained in a complete illustrated card box which also retains the Playcraft Toys (Swansea) shipping label to one end. Two flaps in the base of the box conceal the folded printed cardboard High Drill Tower which is a 46cm tall freestanding structure. Other contents comrpise original accessories supplied with the set including three boxed NFIC (Hong Kong) plastic vehicles - #3033 Karrier Ambulance, #892 Fire Chiefs Car and #891 Fire Truck which is a plastic copy of the Dinky Toys Commer Fire Engine, all of which appear G+/VG in generally VG boxes. The original Mettoy instruction sheet for the Fire Station (folded) is also included together with a plain carboard lidded box which contains various plastic accessories including 9 Fireman figures, 4 Tables, 9 red chairs and one white chair, a workbench, chimney and a small quantity of tools - vice, hammer etc. Although unchecked, the set would appear largely complete and generally G+/VG in G outer box.
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