Corporal Erector Vehicle

Corporal Guided Missile on Erector Vehicle, 1959, Corgi Models, original,  dye cast, 29.2 cms x 7.7 cms x 8 cms, missing missile, spare tyre, also cogs on missile bed need service, otherwise condition: very good.

The actual corporal missile was designed as a tactical nuclear missile for use in the event of Cold War hostilities in Eastern Europe. First developed in the USA, the technology was quickly sold to the British. The Corgi Corporal was marketed to children as 'the rocket you can launch'. It was timed to coincide with the British test firing in 1959 and its production as a toy shows a continued public fascination and appetite for nuclear technology. 

Corgi toys, a trade name of the Mettoy toy company, were hugely popular in the late 1950s and 1960s, producing scale models of high profile vehicles, both real and from films. The missing missile's nose cone could be fitted with caps to explode on contact with the ground.