Kamley Industrial Company Limited - Kositoy - KS - Kwong Shing Plastic Manufactory

Kwong Shing Plastic Manufactory
11 Sun Hing Street (ground floor)
Cheung Chau
Hong Kong (-/+ 1986)

Kamley Industrial Company Ltd.

Room 1400 Yu Sung Boon Building

107-111 Des Voeux Road

Central

Hong Kong (1990/2000's)

As 'KS' - 1970's

As Kositoy - Early 1980's

As Kamley - 20th October 1987-19th September 2003
Parent for all - Kwong Shing

Tel: 5-9810011

CR No. : 0201258

Private company limited by shares

Wound-up

Not to be confused with the brand new (2017) Kosi Toys who manufacture small hobbyists drones.

Marks:

- A red-outline lion standing on Kositoy moniker within a while tablet frame, the lion resembling Parsley from the British children's TV series of the 1970's.

- A white-outline Pegasus flying, stretched-out in an orange-red, rayed-disc or sun-graphic.

History

Err . . . there isn't any!

Originally known to this author for their card inserts to small trucks from pocket-money, header-carded, bagged, rack-toys, printed with a driver and co-driver in military uniform, which were sometimes (but not always) marked with the Kositoy logo. Over the years as more and more sets went through eBay and other online auction-houses a pattern emerged of the same sets appearing as both generics and branded to Kositoy, most carrying the KS stock/product coding.

Eventually a late (1990's?) set came through with a sticker carrying the company's full contact details and address, confirming the relationship between cards, artworks, codes and contents was more than simple contract-manufactured coincidence.

Early sets date from the mid-1970's and several generations of mouldings were got through along with some - probably bought-in - other items, including the later, larger-scale figures. KS-codes are phased-out at about the same time as the origin changes from 'Hong Kong' to 'China' on all packaging.

The company appears to have ceased trading in 2003; late sets having post-1985 MBT's and post 1997 CHINA marking and I've yet to encounter any packaging with the CE mark which ties-in with an early century demise.

A later discovery (2019) of a 1986 catalogue revealed the parent plant to be Kwong Shing hence the KS mark associated with Kamley/Kositoy in previous discoveries.

Listings

Loose Armour - AFV's - Vehicles

Trucks (two wheel types; early: domed/hub-cap and late 6- wheel-nuts/grease-hub, colours vary, some late version military ambulances in white plastic, navy/air force in blue, UN in pale blue, all taking various body types)

- Truck Rounded Cab (around 1:100, generic Ford/GMC design, early: card insert,)

- Truck Rounded Cab (late: no insert)

- Truck Squared Cab I (generic Volvo design, roof lights, early: card insert)

- Truck Squared Cab I (late: no insert, sub-piracies exist)

- Truck Squared Cab II (generic Mercedes design, no roof lights, no insert, sub-piracies exist)

Body Types

- Twin-AA Guns

- Single Gun

- Radar

- Searchlight

- Rocket Launcher

- Twin Rocket Launcher

- Sonic Range-finder with 3 Bowls

- Crane (civil only)

- Bulk-mineral (civil only)

- Bulk-mineral/Tipper (civil only)

- Compacting Refuse (civil only)

- Tanker (civil only as Shell)

- Tented-tilt Troop-cover/Ambulance (civil as Pepsi)

- Slatted-tilt Troop-cover/Ambulance

- Ridged Troop-cover/Ambulance (civil as Coca-Cola)

- 3-hoop Tilt Troop-cover/Ambulance

- 4-hoop Tilt Troop-cover/Ambulance

- Slatted Office-body/Radio-shack

- Round-roofed Office-body/Radio-shack

- Pitched-roof Office-body/Radio-shack

- Rocket-launching Trailer (for all above, early domed wheels (?))

- Rocket-launching Trailer (for all above, later studded wheels)

Others

- AMX 30 (around 1:120, with Saracen style 6-wheel arrangement)

- M1 Abrams/Challenger clone (1:48)

- Chieftain Mk5 (1:48)

- Twin-rotor Helicopter (mini scale, early, 6 windows, domed/hub-cap wheels, closed cockpit windows)

- Twin-rotor Helicopter (intermediate, 6 windows, domed/hub-cap wheels, open cockpit windows)

- Twin-rotor Helicopter (late, 5 windows, wheel-nut/grease-hub wheels, open cockpit windows)

- Field Gun (early, domed/hub-cap wheels, sometimes with astronaut crew)

- Field Gun (late, wheel-nut/grease-hub wheels, sometimes with GI crew)

- Large Truck (around 1:65)

- Jeep (around 1:65)

- Jeep (around 1:48)

- DUKW (silver plastic only?)

- Inflatable Boat (red plastic only?)

- Micro Jeep (civil - 1:76th-72nd)

- Micro Cars (civil - Beach-Buggy, Corvette Stingray, Porsche 911, Volkswagen Beetle, Toosietoy copies?)

- Mustang Fighter (1:72)

- Spitfire (green, RAF roundels)

- Spitfire (grey, German crosses!)

Scenics

- Fuel Pumps (Shell Petrol)

- Play-mat (river-crossing)

- Flag & Stand

- Sandbag Sanger/Corner (Airfix copy)

- Barbed-wire (six-hooped top-strand)

- Bailey-bridge (single moulding, similar to Airfix pontoon bridge section)

- Traffic Cones

- Marquee Tent (arched doorway)

- Modern Road Signs (8 different plus directional-instruction barriers)

Known Sets

Legend

* = Kositoy only seen

** = Kositoy and generic versions known

# = Kamley sticker known

« = Generic only seen

Њ = header-carded bag)

Б = blister card

Military

Small Scale

KS 2-3001 - Combat Troops (2nd version Airfix 8th Army, green - on tree-runners) « Њ

KS 2-3001 - Combat Troops (2nd version Airfix 8th Army, sand - on tree-runners) « Њ

KS 36-3010 - Cowboys ‘n’ Indians * Њ

Large Scale (Britains 'khaki infantry' clones + Swoppet kneeling mortar man unless otherwise stated, artillery crew are small scale and can be astronaut-like (early) or GI-like (late), they are often absent in larger scale figure sets, but not always)

KS 13-2003 - Free Wheeling (field gun+ 2 figures) « Њ

KS 13-2003 - Free Wheeling (jeep) « Њ

KS 15-3005 - Attack Force Emergency (field gun + 2 figures) ** Њ

KS 15-3005 - Attack Force Emergency (4 figures) ** Њ

KS 15-3005 - Attack Force Emergency (12 figures) ** Њ

KS 15-3005 - Attack Force Emergency (large set multiple contents, Airfix 1:32 8th Army clones) * Њ

KS 16-2005 - Combat Set (field gun + 2 figures) « Њ

KS 16-2005 - Combat Set (4 figures) « Њ

? - Attack Combat Set (M1 Abrams, Airfix 1:32 paratroop/commando clones with new helmets) * Њ

? - Attack Combat Set (6 trucks, 2 jeeps, Airfix 1:32 paratroop/commando clones with new helmets) * Њ

? - Attack Combat Set (Chieftain, 2 small jeeps, 2 field guns) * Њ
? - Chieftain Mk 5 Combat set (Chieftain, 2 small jeeps, 2 field guns, spitfie, figure, Tamiya artwork) * Њ

? - Combat Set (large jeep, 2 AMX, 2 fireld guns, 4 kneeling firers) * Б

? - Combat Set (large blister set - new graphics) * # Б

Wild West

- Wild West Cowboys and Indians Play Set (Airfix 1:32 clones) * Њ

Civil

? - Free Wheelers (4 lorries, micro-vehicles, fuel-pumps) * Њ

? - The Truck Pack (10 lorries, 5-deck window-box with hanger, Blue Box rip-off) *

? - Truck Fleet (8 lorries, 2 small army jeeps, road-sign set, 3-deck window-box with hanger) «

? - Truck Set (small, 8 lorries) « Њ

? - Truck Set (medium, 8 lorries) * Б

? - Truck Set (large, 8 lorries, fuel pumps) « Б

There will be more.

Thanks to

Bill B - Published Catalogue

Brian Berke, New York - photos

Paul Morehead, UK, editor; Plastic Warrior magazine - Catalogue pages

Links

Kamley on Home Blog

Kamley on Hong Kong Blog