Sunday, June 22, 2008

Mechanical toys

This is a spining toy made during the 20th century. It is preferbly played by children as it is simple and it has a image on the spinning toy.





This toy train was made by the German maker Marklin, it was an early producer of toy trains. They created three different gauges of trains with matching tracks to run on. These were numbered 1, 2 and 3. This creation saw the standardisation of toy train gauges made by other firms such as Bing and Carette so that they could all produce train sets that could be added to. A fourth gauge was created by Marklin a few years after this. This was a smaller gauge and was numbered 0.



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