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Your Price: $ 149.99
Item Number: 866-8
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Circa: ca 1950s
Condition: good / see description
Size: 7.5 ins bow to stern x 2.5 wide
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Manufacturer: Tri-ang Toys / Lines Bros / International Model Aircraft Ltd
This is a vintage ca 1950's English made Clockwork Scale Model Series 4 Penguin Drifter toy Pond Yacht made by International Model Aircraft Ltd. Made of plastic, it is fully detailed and was originally fitted with sails [now missing]. The boats deck has the imprinted Tri-ang logo. Condition: in good child-used condition, missing sails and wind key; original box is missing one end flap
Pond yachts which could float on ponds and lakes were popular with children in the 1920s and 1930s. British toy manufacturers began concentrating on a range of clockwork tin boats, including speedboats and cabin cruisers in the 1930s. Later, the increased use of plastics for toys included boats. The Tri-ang brand produced a successful range of large scale plastic clockwork civilian boats like this one in the 1950s and 1960s.
A LITTLE HISTORY OF: Tri-ang Toys was the brand name of the Lines Brothers - a triangle is made up of three lines (three Lines brothers) - and the factory was named Tri-ang Works. Founded by Lines Brothers, the International Model Aircraft Ltd., was a pioneer in the model aircraft business, and was later recognized as the finest in the world; having produced the first ever range of flying model aircraft - FROG (flies right off the ground). |
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