Pullalong toy
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
67 mm (Width); 238 mm (Length)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672233.1
Summary
A wooden pull along toy comprising three pieces of plain wood glued and pinned together. There are two wooden bobbins that rotate on dowels at either end. Three holes have been drilled to accept dowels holding bobbins that are catalogued as 62233.2. There is also a red, braided cotton string with a dark stained bobbin at one end. All are part of the wooden pull along toy catalogued as 672233.
Provenance
Part of a large collection of handmade toys and puzzles donated to the Museum of Childhood in 2019 by Nigel Briggs. They were made by John Doble, father of the donor's wife Hanne. He had worked with Nancy Catford (of the Nursery Schools Association), the designer of the toys, during the Second World War. Together they produced paper patterns that people could use at home as templates for thin ply patterns which could in turn be used to make their own wooden toys. Other toys were made from dowels and empty cotton reels.