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Cover of the 1916 catalog of Gordon-Van Tine kit house plans A modest bungalow-style kit house plan offered by Harris Homes in 1920 A Colonial Revival kit home offered by Sterling Homes in 1916 Cover of a 1922 catalog published by Gordon-Van Tine, showing building materials being unloaded from a boxcar Illustration of kit home materials loaded in a boxcar from a 1952 Aladdin catalogue
The Girder and Panel Building Set construction kits enabled a child to build plastic models of mid-twentieth century style buildings. Vertical plastic columns were placed in the holes of a Masonite base board and horizontal girders were then locked into the vertical columns to create the skeletal structure of a model building. Brightly coloured ...
ARLO-Micromodels (former - Fabrica de construções ARLO - Porto-Portugal, established in 1939 by Arnaldo Luizello da Rocha-Brito) - Still existing today and as a five generation owned brand, Patent 22130 (discontinued actually), as being the first multimaterial kits produced, using several wood types parts, industrially finely cut and lathe shaped, embossed tinplate parts using cutting dies ...
Jago is a British company which used to produce a range of kit cars principally Jeep styled between 1965 and 1997. The company is still based in Chichester , West Sussex and now manufactures for a number of industries including, concealment work for councils and telecommunications, theming and the arts.
The pinewood derby is the wood car racing event of the Cub Scout Program of the Boy Scouts of America. Pinewood derbies are often run by packs of the Cub Scouts program. With the help of adults, Cub Scouts build their own unpowered, unmanned miniature cars from wood, usually from kits containing a block of pine wood, plastic wheels, and metal axles.
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Crosley had produced different products for the war effort, including the 'Pup' 4x4 prototype, a tiny air-portable 4WD. [32] [45] In 1950, to broaden its line-up into the commercial and agricultural market, the Farm-O-Road was introduced – an ATV sized utility vehicle that looked like a small Jeep. It was a combination of a light tractor, a ...
Portable building: Portakabin Ltd., owned by Shepherd Building Group: Widely used term for a portable modular building in the UK. [174] [175] Portakabin is among the brands poked fun at by the satirical magazine Private Eye over its attempts to protect the term against genericization. [176] Positraction: Limited-slip differential: General Motors