If you check out ebay, planecrazy, you can find great Chieftains at about £15-£20 in great condition. I got one about a year ago ( it cost £12.00 ) and it is a brilliant little model ( about 1.43 scale ) and it has a spring-loaded gun which originally fired plastic shells, but you can use wooden matchsticks today ! You can elevate and depress the gun by turning the hatch cover. The tracks are just silver plastic, but they work well. I love it. It's a great toy which could not be sold to kids today because of Health and Safety issues !!!!
Dinky made hundreds of thousands of them, so they are quite common. This is the one which hammered the nails into the coffin of the old Dinky Centurion!!!
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Just did that, stacks on there including one on the back of and old AEC transporter! It would be nice to see HM eventually produce the Chieftain, it'll happen eventually I'm sure.