Toy boat
Fisher Price
Category
Toys
Date
1979 - 1980
Materials
plastic and metal
Measurements
230 mm (Height) x 195 mm (Width) ; 370 mm (Length)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672013.1
Summary
A Fisher Price Play Family Ferry Boat. This is a double-deck ferry boat with a fold-down ramp at the rear to load and unload the accessory cars, and with movable barricades to keep the cars from rolling. The Ferry Boat floats on water, or can be used as a pull toy (4 yellow plastic wheels on the bottom) with its yellow plastic string. This set was only made for a six month production run due to consumer complaints about the colours running off the lithographs when they got wet. It has a large yellow double-deck with a brown base a white upper captains deck and a green roof over the captains quarters. There is an orangish-tan double steering wheel and a yellow push-down whistle on the captains deck
Provenance
Gift to the National Trust Museum of Childhood by Tim Joyce in 2017. Bought for the donor for birthday and Christmas presents by his parents and also played with by his sister Emily and later played with by their children.
Makers and roles
Fisher Price , manufacturer