Toy boat
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
621 mm (length); 108 mm (width); 112 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 667904
Summary
A wooden clockwork speedboat painted cream with a red line above the waterline and blue beneath. On the deck is a metal ventilator and a varnished wooden hatch cover which has a hole in it giving access to the winder. This hole is plugged by a cork with a red metal crown. Behind the hatch cover is a lever to control the motor and a cockpit, and at the stern there is a tiller to turn the rudder. The motor drives a screw just forward of the rudder. At both sides of the bow is a badge representing a terrestrial globe. The key is missing.