Tug Boat Mary
Tugboat ‘Mary’ - An all plastic clockwork powered scale model of a Thames Tug
The hull, deck and bulwarks are moulded exactly to shape and a powerful miniature clockwork motor supplies the motive power. All accessories, such as deckhouses, ventilators, bridge controls, Lifebelts , etc., are true-to-scale…
Sold under the FROG and Penguin brand names (Lines Brothers ie Tri-ang etc) as an assembled model in 1939 and then as a kit of parts post WW2.
These models are nearly all prone to distortion to the deck and superstructure Approx - 18cm / 7” long
This particular example appears to have been assembled from a kit. The successor was Tugboat ‘Annie’ an altogether more robust clockwork toy boat and later still Tugboat ‘Dawn’
Tug Boat Mary
Tugboat ‘Mary’ - An all plastic clockwork powered scale model of a Thames Tug
The hull, deck and bulwarks are moulded exactly to shape and a powerful miniature clockwork motor supplies the motive power. All accessories, such as deckhouses, ventilators, bridge controls, Lifebelts , etc., are true-to-scale…
Sold under the FROG and Penguin brand names (Lines Brothers ie Tri-ang etc) as an assembled model in 1939 and then as a kit of parts post WW2.
These models are nearly all prone to distortion to the deck and superstructure Approx - 18cm / 7” long
This particular example appears to have been assembled from a kit. The successor was Tugboat ‘Annie’ an altogether more robust clockwork toy boat and later still Tugboat ‘Dawn’