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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK
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buzzy bee
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Bet your mum thought it was very !! hehehe |
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JC T ONE
Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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The earliest I recall, was a summerday, on our lawn.
There was a Red open car, not shure if it was big enough to sit in ? or if it was plastic or metal ? but fairly big.
I must have been around 3 or 4 at the time.
Next was the Green Scalextric Jaguar D type I had for christmas (1966/67 app?)
My brother had the Blue Matra Jet, both were the Racetuned type. _________________ http://www.eurods.eu/wp/index.html |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK
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bob2
Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 1727 Location: Malta
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:50 am Post subject: |
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Most I remember was a pedal car (go kart shape) I had when about 3 or 4, a metal frame with no bodywork, a plastic seat and a racing number on the front, my cousin same age as me had one identical but with a different number and we used to race each other around!!
Do not know what happened to it, wish I'd kept it now as I'd have restored it for my daughter to use!! |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:10 am Post subject: |
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bob2 wrote: | Most I remember was a pedal car (go kart shape) I had when about 3 or 4, a metal frame with no bodywork, a plastic seat and a racing number on the front, my cousin same age as me had one identical but with a different number and we used to race each other around!!
Do not know what happened to it, wish I'd kept it now as I'd have restored it for my daughter to use!! |
That sounds similar to the "Kettcar" one I had - great fun!
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roverdriver
Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 1210 Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:25 am Post subject: |
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Ahh- memories! In 1949 I had a tinplate clockwork trolley bus. After winding, it would run forwards for a short distance, then pause (waiting for tiny invisible passengers to board) then run forwards and stop again, repeating this for some considerable distance.
At the same time, I had a green clockwork tinplate steamroller. It would roll backwards and forwards over the same piece of carpet three or four times, then roll forwards to attack another section of carpet, repeating the performance until the spring was unwound, or it reached a wall.
Alas those two toys somehow got lost in the move to Australia at the end of '49, however I still have a Victory Industries 'Miss England' put-put boat. I believe that these were only made for a year or two, then the same hull was fitted with either a clockwork or battery motor.
Lastly was my pedal car, left behind in England in '49
I had my 5th Birthday somewhere between Columbo and Fremantle!
My folks, in those days, had a little bit of money from a win on the football pools, alas in Oz the funds soon disappeared through some bad luck and some mismanagement, so from then on I had to make my own playthings, one of which was a wooden wheelbarrow, with the wheel made from a 2 inch slice off a nice round tree trunk! _________________ Dane- roverdriver but not a Viking. |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK
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JC T ONE
Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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Some nice stories there
love the pedal car & steam roller had a stationary steam engine, when I was around 12. _________________ http://www.eurods.eu/wp/index.html |
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Rick Site Admin
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stuchamp
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 546 Location: Iowa, USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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Not my earliest but definitely my favorite.
Marx Indy slot car set from the early 60's.
I wore out the original but was able to buy the exact same set on ebay a few years ago.
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JC T ONE
Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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stuchamp wrote: | Not my earliest but definitely my favorite.
Marx Indy slot car set from the early 60's.
I wore out the original but was able to buy the exact same set on ebay a few years ago.
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How cool is that Offy Indys
Scalextric also did a model, of this famues car. _________________ http://www.eurods.eu/wp/index.html |
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Rick Site Admin
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JC T ONE
Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:02 am Post subject: |
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Mamod perhaps?
RJ |
Hi Rick, time has gone by, and so has my memory sorry, dont remember.
Jens Christian _________________ http://www.eurods.eu/wp/index.html |
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roverdriver
Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 1210 Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Rick Wrote-
"I wonder if it was similar to this one? I've not wound it up in a while so I'm not sure what performance it puts on.
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/toy_steamroller.htm"
Sorry, Rick, not like that one. Mine was definitely a depiction of a steamer with a proper funnel and no canopy.
Re proper steam engines, I still have one that was given to my older brother in a bout 1947. It is not a Mamod, but is a single-acting one like Mamod. The transfer emblem was of an Indian chieftains head. I must get it out and take some photos. _________________ Dane- roverdriver but not a Viking. |
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