SPACE PILOT 3-COLOUR SUPER-SONIC GUN - MERIT - ENGLAND

Black plastic space gun with flared red plastic lens assembly. Battery operated flashlight with three color lens. The gun has a distinctive green rocket shaped telescopic sight. There are also plastic rocket shaped attachments on either side; these can be in red, yellow or green.

Plastic prongs at the back of the barrel. Two sets of fins on the barrel. The box attributes many spurious functions to various moldings on the toy. The artwork is a classic Dan D are scene but his name is not used. The first sighting of the gun is in the Meccano Magazine for January 1954 1954. It was offered as a prize in a 1955 TV Comic, along with a set of Magic Space Glasses.

The gun was still listed in the Merit catalogue for 1977.

English space gun based on the Norton-Honer Buck Rogers Super Sonic Ray.

Supersonic, color