Britan cannon toy

[Welsh_red 4,711]

My boy got given a pair of these recently.  One needs a new spring and the other was wedged with matches . I sorted one of them out this morning for him. Never seen him so bouncy about a toy before.  Lego men criminals all set up up ready for execution , including Fred from scooby do (who apparently has been behind all the weird goings on in crystal cove ) 

Anybody on here remember these toy cannons?

 

[arcticgun 4,548]

Too rights I do nowt like couple of them n fifty or so placcky Nazis n Yankee soldiers ,. , Happy days played for years with em , had loads of different air fix soldiers n cheap market stall ones them cannons made it ??

[forest of dean redneck 11,707]

I had a matchstick firer had a lot of britians farm stuff,bit of zoo stuff not much army 

i had the cannon ,a German sidecar combo and about 3 British soldiers and a mortar think that fired as well

this would been 78/9 -early 80s

[Meece 1,958]

Can't see the picture, it's so dark. Somewhere in the attic there is a box of toys and in that box there is a model 25 pounder which fires matchsticks. It probably goes back to the 40s or 50s

Edited November 26, 2017 by Meece

[stumfelter 3,034]

I had one of those when I was a kid and also had the armoured car ( Saracen or something) and that fired matches as well. Proper toys and indestructible.

[mackem 27,313]

I had one,I didn't think they still made them,they were great for kids,anyone have one of those little bombs you put crushed match heads in and threw them off a wall to make a loud bang?

[forest of dean redneck 11,707]

Had a metal cap bomb

[Welsh_red 4,711]

1 minute ago, mackem said:

I had one,I didn't think they still made them,they were great for kids,anyone have one of those little bombs you put crushed match heads in and threw them off a wall to make a loud bang?

It's not new. His grans new boyfried whose in his 60's gave it to him . It's his old toy 

[secretagentmole 1,701]

I used to have a tank with tracks that fired the cannon on it....

[Meece 1,958]

I remember those cap bomb things. We got banned from using them at school. The lads used to load a large amount of cap strip in the front and had mass throwing of them at the school wall. The head came out and told everyone to stop using them because it was too much. If it went bang we tried to blow up something with it. Weedkiller and sugar mix. Well anything that we could get our hands on.