Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: ModmanMax on January 07, 2013, 09:29:44 am
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I found this in an antique shop. Still goes as good as the day it was made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luPvZtEVD5A&feature=share&list=UU3JEIAwzSpCMfyNlxSYmYJA
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That really is a nice little find ! Looks like it's running well too... :-))
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It could be older than that - http://www.nzmeccano.com/image-39012
70 years ago was the middle of WW2, and any metal available would be going into munitions and bully beef tins. The images on the site in the link show early 1930s. All toy manufacture ended in 1942, and the boat range might not have resumed post war.
Theres plenty of information around regarding the construction sets, railways and Dinky die casts, but precious little about their boat range. Maybe they were mostly short lived due to water and clockwork not mixing well?
It seems that after a half century of troubled finances and confusing buy-outs involving mostly the US and the French along the way, part of the company now resides with Airfix, the rest with Nikko.
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I found this in an antique shop. Still goes as good as the day it was made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luPvZtEVD5A&feature=share&list=UU3JEIAwzSpCMfyNlxSYmYJA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luPvZtEVD5A&feature=share&list=UU3JEIAwzSpCMfyNlxSYmYJA)
Yes and some pratt <:( saw one for 35 pounds at a steam fair this year with the workings and key and did not bother to buy it..doh
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There's one of those in my dad's shed somewhere...
Lance