![]() ![]() We have found the caissons and cannons in soft plastic but are unsure if the wagons were ever made in soft plastic. The stagecoaches, wagons, caissons and cannons were made of hard plastic and can suffer from heat warping after years of storage in attics. Some figures may have yellow paint applied at factory as flesh! Earlier figures (1951-56) are hard plastic while later ones (1957-63?) were made in soft plastic. They went out of business in the early 1980s.Įarly 1950s figures may come with swirled plastic and factory paint. About 1963 REL stopped making toys to concentrate upon the auto industry. Other toy companies like Lido Toys and Archer also switched from hard to soft polyethylene plastic in the mid 1950s as it was safer for children to play with. They originally used styrene hard plastic but an ad from a 1957 Dearth's Hobby & Toy center has a western playset touted as being "made of soft, rubber like unbreakable plastic". REL made and sold tea sets and doll house furniture for girls and western themed figures and playsets for boys. They compressed the name to PLASCO to use as a marketing slogan. To sell the toys from their molds a subsidiary was created, the Plastic Art Corporation. In 1948 REL started making molds for toys. REL made molds for the home and auto industries. Using the initials of the first names of his sisters Rose and Ester and himself he named the company REL. Larry bought into the idea and in the 1940s started a plastic molding company. In 1936 Lazzaro imported what might be one of the first plastic injection machines into the US. REL PLASTICS was a mold making company that started up in the 1940s by Larry Fattori son of Lazzaro Fattori. ![]()
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