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Flexible Flyer ad from the early 1900s. Samuel Leeds Allen patented the Flexible Flyer in 1889 [2] in Cinnaminson, New Jersey using local children and adults to test prototypes. [3] Allen's company flourished by selling these speedy and yet controllable sleds at a time when others were still producing toboggans and "gooseneck" sleds. [4]
Samuel Leeds Allen (May 5, 1841 – March 28, 1918) was the founder of S.L. Allen & Company in Philadelphia. He was the inventor of, and his company manufactured, both the Flexible Flyer sled and Planet Jr farm and garden equipment.
Two people in a horse-drawn cutter-style sleigh A loaded dogsled Boy lying on a Flexible Flyer Traveling by sleigh, Muscovy, mid-16th century, according to Sigismund von Herberstein. A sled, skid, sledge, or sleigh is a land vehicle that slides across a surface, usually of ice or snow.
A snowmobile tour at Yellowstone National Park First person view of a snowmobile driven through Yellowstone National Park.. A snowmobile, also known as a snowmachine (chiefly Alaskan), motor sled (chiefly Canadian), motor sledge, skimobile, or snow scooter, is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow.
The Hirohata Merc, one of the most famous cars in the lead sled style. A lead sled is a standard production automobile with a body heavily modified in particular ways [citation needed] [dubious – discuss] (see below); especially, though not exclusively, a 1949, 1950, or 1951 model year Ford 'Shoebox' or Mercury Eight car.
The kicksled or spark is a small sled consisting of a chair mounted on a pair of flexible metal runners that extend backward to about twice the chair's length. The sled is propelled by kicking (sparka or sparke in the Scandinavian languages) the ground by foot. There is a handlebar attached to the top of the chair back.
A 1987 Flxible Metro-A, owned by WMATA Metrobus, parked in Washington, D.C.. The Flxible Co. (pronounced "flexible") was an American manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars, funeral cars, ambulances, intercity coaches and transit buses, based in the U.S. state of Ohio.
The Radio Flyer Ziggle, introduced in 2013, is a ride-on toy for kids 3 to 8 with four caster wheels and no pedals. [21] Kids propel forward by wiggling and twisting their bodies in a back and forth motion and moving the handle bars at the same time. [22] [23] In 2016, Radio Flyer introduced a new partnership product, the Tesla Model S for Kids.