Toy truck
Fisher-Price Toys
Category
Toys
Date
circa 1979 - 1981
Materials
Plastic and printed cardboard
Measurements
105 mm (length of truck); 62 mm (width of truck);
Place of origin
Belgium
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659387
Summary
A toy fork-lift truck in its original box. The body of the truck is orange, the fork lift section is yellow and the revolving wheels are made of black plastic. The fork lift section is spring loaded. The driver has a blue plastic body, black printed facial features (including a moustache) and he wears a silver coloured plastic peaked helmet. The driver fits inside a circular well in the middle of the truck. The box is made from red, white, blue and cream cardboard, with a transparent plastic window at the front. On the reverse are four colour photographs of the following Fisher-Price toys, a bulldozer, a front loader, a dump truck and a fork lift truck. Arrows indicate the spring loaded action of each toy. printed on the base of the box is 'copyright 1979, 1981 Fisher-Price Toys, East Aurora, New York 14052/ Division of the Quaker Oats Company/ Assembled in Belgium by Fisher-Price Toys/ Includes parts from U.S.A./ Package printed in Belgium'. Inside is a blue, plastic tray, moulded with a hole shaped like the toy fork lift truck it holds. Total number of items is four
Marks and inscriptions
Underside of truck: FISHER-PRICE TOYS
Makers and roles
Fisher-Price Toys , maker