Toy jeep
Category
Toys
Date
circa 1945
Materials
Wood, metal and photopaper
Measurements
Jeep –585 mm (length); 310 mm (width); 270 mm (height);
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662104
Summary
A wooden toy jeep together with four sheets of scanned photographs. The jeep was made by a Czechoslovakian soldier for the son of his captain Cernik. The son and his mother were billeted with the donor’s family in Northampton during World War II, and it remained with the family after the Cernik’s returned to Czechoslovakia. It has four metal (corroded) wheels with black rubber tyres, on metal axles. The two front hubcaps are missing. The oblong grey painted wooden body has a hollow engine compartment at the front with radiator and lights painted on in white. The hollow back part has curved sides and a white star painted on either side. On the back is a square in red with ‘50’ in white on it, and a white painted oval with CVS in white. Wheel arches are also painted on in white. Within the back part is a wooden painted seat, the centre part is broken at the edge. With it are four sheets of scanned photographs. The three photographs on two of them show a boy in jacket and tie, seated at a table with a book. Another is in a garden with two ladies holding babies with a girl seated in front of them, and the third has a boy in white standing in front of a tree. The third sheet has just two photographs on it of the seated boy and group. The fourth has a single photograph of a boy under the tree. Total number of items is 5.