The Company Plastique Gilac was founded in 1941 by Olivier Lacroix. He named his Company, based in Oyonnax, France, after his daughter Gisèle Lacroix (GIsele LACroix). In 1953, he started producing products made from polyethylene. They produced a wide range of household appliances as well as some toys in 1/18 scale, like a Rolls Royce Silver Dawn (copied from IDEAL), a Studebaker and the VW split window beetle.
One piece soft plastic body with cutout windows. No chassis and bumpers are molded into the body. Crude plastic wheels snap into the body. Colored wheels: yellow, red or black and the wheels are two different sizes and styles. We don't know why, but some dark green splits and a copper coloured split are known to exist with smaller sized black wheels: a special production or coincidence? The Company produced other cars too, some of them in smaller size. Maybe at one time the larger (better fitting) wheels were out of stock? Or are the dark green and copper splits made by another manufacturer?
Same as the TUDOR ROSE but without “Made in England” molded inside front hood. The GILAC was already produced in 1955, so TUDOR ROSE must have acquired the molds from GILAC. Many toy manufacturers, mainly regarding cheap toys, shared molds between each other, thus lowering development costs...
