by Tone » Tue Dec 24, 2019 10:23 pm
I have seen two of these on auctions. They look like conversions of the Daiya / Bandai 15" DC-7 friction toy, only with two engines instead of four. Note how the Olympic lithographed finish seems to have been superimposed over American Airlines.
There is a very odd example I have seen of this Daiya / Bandai DC-7 with stenciled Balkan Bulgarian Airlines colour scheme, which is even more exotic. I used to have a picture of it in my posts.
Incidentally, there are some very nicely-modeled Japanese tin toys of the YS-11 twin turboprop airliner, which Olympic did operate. I have never seen one finished in Olympic colours, though. I have seen All-Nippon Airways and, oddly enough, TWA!