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However, as the 1940s drew to a close, they encountered increasing competition from Japanese manufacturers who produced mechanical tin toys for lower prices. To become more competitive, Chein moved to a 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m 2 ) factory in Burlington, New Jersey , where they employed a staff of as many as 600 workers.
Strauss in 1924, in his office with various toys. Ferdinand Strauss Company was an American toy company, founded in the early 1900s, based in New York, New York, that made inexpensive toys, including wind-up mechanical toys, out of lithographed tin. One of its early mechanical products was Trixo the climbing monkey.
Pages in category "Mechanical toys" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Carrot knife;
National Entertainment Collectibles Association Inc. (mostly known by its acronym NECA) is an American manufacturer of collectibles typically licensed from films, video-games, sports, music, and television based in New Jersey.
Toys under the tree on Christmas morning weren't always made at the North Pole. For a half-century, until 1980, many were made in Erie and Girard by Marx Toys. The company founded by "Toy King ...
The 142,300-square-foot (13,220 m 2), two-story store was a prototype for the chain, featuring a larger variety of merchandise and services than its typical stores of the era, including automotive repair and a restaurant. [7] The new Sears was built to the east, and was connected to the rest of the mall by a wing of stores.
The calendar that hangs on a kitchen wall in the old Ho Toy restaurant is still flipped to December 2022, the second-to-last of approximately 768 months the Downtown mainstay was in business.
A friction motor is a simple mechanism to propel toy cars, trucks, trains, action figures and similar toys. The motor consists of a large flywheel which is connected to the drive wheels of the toy via a gear train with very low gear ratio, so that the flywheel revolves much faster than the wheels. The flywheel's axis is perpendicular to the ...