The BOAC Comet 4C Jet Airliner |
FROG 356P The BOAC Comet 4C Jet Airliner, Model Aircraft International, 1958-62
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356P | 1958-1964 | C2 | } (25000) | BOAC |
F356 | 1964-1966 | C2 | BOAC |
Scale 1/96
FROG model aircraft 1932-1976, R. Lines, L. Hellstrom
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Tri-ang 356P D.H.106 Comet 4, Lines Freres S.A., France (to mid-1964)
Tri-ang/Frog (France)
Lines Freres S.A., Route de Dunkerque, Calais, France (to mid-1964);
Meccano - Tri-ang Lines Freres S.A., 70-88 Avenue Henri Barbusse. 93 Bobigny. France (from mid-1964)
Period: 1962?-1972?
"Old" Style
FROG model aircraft 1932-1976, R. Lines, L. Hellstrom
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Unknown brand in poly bag D.H.106 Comet IV, 1964
Unknown no. 1
Period: 1964
The 1964 production records contain a reference to a "356 Special In Poly Bag" produced in 800 pieces. This does in al probability refer to some special batch supplied to a customer who wanted to use the kits for promotional purposes. The logical choice would be an airline, but which one? At the time, a number of airlines were in the process of acquiring Comets and perhaps one of these wanted some kits as give-aways. If so, they may perhaps have included new decals.
Another theory is that the entry was a misprint for 351 instead of 356. If so, it might refer to the Martinair issue of the DC-7 (which see).
FROG model aircraft 1932-1976, R. Lines, L. Hellstrom
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FROG F356 The BOAC Comet 4C Jet Airliner, Model Aircraft International, 1964-66
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W30 Comet 4 jet transport or trooper, 1968-70
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W30 | 1968-1970 | J3 | 15000 | 1xRAF |
Scale 1/96
FROG model aircraft 1932-1976, R. Lines, L. Hellstrom
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NOVO F356 Comet 4C Jet Airliner, Cat.No.76096, NOVO Toys Ltd, 1977-1980
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| 76096 | D.H.106 Comet 4 (BOAC) | 160000 |
FROG model aircraft 1932-1976, R. Lines, L. Hellstrom
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The NOVO kit Cat.No.76096 Comet 4C Jet Airliner was included in the first catalogue of the newly established company. After the tooling was handed over to the USSR, its mould was sent to the Tashigushka Trust factory in Tashkent along with other 1/96 airliner models and its ruthless exploitation was started. This was the price of the deal with the British side.
In order not to waste the country's precious currency, Nikolai Semenovich Patolichev, Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR gave preference to compensation deals in contracts with Western countries, under which the USSR paid for the provided technology and equipment with manufactured products. A similar deal was struck with the company whose property was the FROG moulds.
There is no doubt that this was a win-win deal. But the harsh conditions and the low prices for incoming kits from the USSR required ruthless exploitation of the tooling provided. In just two years of existence, 160,000 Comet 4C kits were donated to NOVO Toys Ltd (compared to 40,000 produced in Britain in fifteen years!!!).
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16.05.2018
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