Gosh, I have been wanting to do a post all week, and have been working on taking and editing photos but the time to sit down and actually post just hasn't been there. I badly wanted to do something for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing but ended up waiting for more toys to come in - I had some rockets missing pieces and was waiting for job lots of parts to arrive. Oh well, it is what it is and I'm here now with this vision of the future from around 1936.
Founded around 1936, Maurice Manoil and his brother Jack formed Manoil Manufacturing Co. in Waverly, New York and was known for their diecast or slush cast figures and vehicles. Utilizing a combination of the Airflow design in vehicles popular at the time, and the then popular Zeppelins floating to-&-fro between Europe and the U.S. this car was made somewhere between 1936-38. There's been some discussion in the hobby groups as to whether these originally came with white wheels or black wheels. If white wheels were OEM then that means at some time during the past the ones on my sample were replaced. In any case it's still a 'futuristic' blast from the past. The toy measures 6 1/4" (15.87cm) L x 1 7/8" (4.76cm) W x 1 5/8" (4.12cm) H. Enjoy! Opa Fritz
That’s a beauty. Thanks for posting.
ReplyDeleteMany Thanx! Concept cars were some of the coolest designs ever, and the ones from the early days of automobiles are fascinating!
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