Banner Plastics Pyro Brand Oil Truck in Box for Sale

Banner Plastics Pyro Brand Oil Truck in Box

This Boxed Banner Plastics Oil Truck is a beauty and quite striking.  The toy is near new old stock and marked “Pyro” under the cab, presumably a sub-company within Banner.

We have never had a boxed oil and gas truck like this survive, so we appreciate its rarity.  The toy is likely ca 1950, just popost-warand it was purchased from the owner’s estate.

The blue and bright pink toy appears near new old stock but has missing flaps on one end.  A small cork is missing from the tank top, presumably, it crumbled away.

A brief history of Banner Plastics & Pyro Toys of The Bronx, New York/Patterson, New Jersey:

1944 to 1967

Founder: Emanuel M. Pressner and Bernard Schiller

Specialty: Small plastic cars, trucks, tea sets, and other toys.

Banner Plastic Corp. was founded by Emanuel M. Pressner and Bernard Schiller in 1944. Pressner was a toy importer. He took an interest in Columbia Protektosite, the company that produced Beton’s toy soldiers. Schiller was eventually removed from the business.

In 1950, Pressner moved the Banner Plastic Corp from Bronx, New York to Patterson, New Jersey. In the mid-1950s, the company

In 1965, Banner Plastic Corporation filed for bankruptcy. They remained afloat for a few more years. The company was sold in 1967 to Tal-Cap, a toy conglomeration in Minnesota.