Auto Hauler Convoy

I pulled out all the small toy auto hauler's in the collection (there's only four) and thought it would be neat to photograph them as a convoy. Sometime last year Google added a nice little feature to its photo albums - the ability to make your own .GIF's. Prior to that .GIF's were made under program control based on the photos you uploaded - sometimes they turned out pretty good (and quite a few had been posted to this blog) but other times they weren't so hot. But now one can upload 2-to-50 stills to create their own animation and so with that in mind, this was my first attempt at making a .GIF on my own. Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina

Front to back: Ideal, Allied, Wyandotte, Marx

Marx HP Auto Hauler

We're reaching into the photo archives for this post. As often times happens I prepare photos for posting and then just get distracted. and this beautiful hard plastic (HP) auto hauler is yet another example of that. 

I'm not entirely sure just when this toy came out but it was most likely around the 1953-55 time frame. It is a tractor-trailer combination utilizing Marx's 1/43 scale HP vehicles as loads. These cars were also included in Marx's Marxville line of plastic railroad accessories for their 3-rail O-gauge trains as well as their large tin-litho service stations. The auto hauler itself was a separate sale item and measures 12 3/4" (32.4cm) L x 2 5/8" (6.7cm) W x 3 1/8" (7.9) H (w/o cars). Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina

Let the unloading begin!

Here's it's shown with anothe Marx HP COE tractor. This tractor didn't come with the auto hauler but is still fully compatible with it.