Well, maybe they never went away. June 1964 had seen the arrival of mother and junior giraffes in the back of a Bedford TK cab with a blue plastic box attached to the place where all sorts of rear sections had been attached in the past (and would continue to be attached for several more years, but that's another story).
In 1969 they re-appeared in the Giant Daktari Gift Set 14, in a similar box, now brown, and with a cab painted beige, and then again in the same year with a strong metal enclosure on the back of a Turbine Truck in a considerably larger scale to the Bedford, not that a scale can actually be applied to a model of something imaginary - but you'll know what I mean.
This is the Qualitoys #406 model from the very limited series I have been researching, much to the frustration of collectors who don't like these very much but, fortunately, of some interest to those who do (as there is precious little information published about this range).
Whereas the folk at Corgi decided that they needed a bigger pony than the ones issued either with #102 or #112 trailers for the Horsebox, they seem have concluded that the giraffes were fine as they were. Finding a model that had them and that was not sealed in a pack took a while but at least this one has only appeared as a truck and not a trailer.
I am still waiting to see, never mind acquire, the #709 Horsebox Trailer. If anyone has decent Dump Truck, Fire Trailer or Jumbo Dozer then I need these and they ought to be reasonably readily available. The problem with these toys is that they did get played with a lot so those I encounter are nearly always either wrecks or in original sealed packs which I don't really need.
I still have no idea what #713 might be - or even whether it exists.
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