Object number
2020/39/12/1-2
Collection
Creator
Description
Marx Battery powered tractor 'Tricky Tommy', in illustrated end-opening box. Red and silver plastic tractor with yellow rear mudguards and black rubber front wheels and tinplate rear wheels. Plastic red and yellow driver, realistic driving motion created by linking both hands and feet to levers and steering wheel. Reversing switch on the bonnet. Bonnet embossed with'Reversible Diesel Tractor Pat. no. 2587082. Battery compartment underneath. Box illustrated in red, black and blue. 'Mysterious-Automatic steering action' and 'Tricky Tommy the Big Brain Tractor'. Model by Marx from a large collection of British manufactured toy farm vehicles and implements. Numbering: 1) Box, 2) Tractor
Physical description
Numbering: 1) Box, 2) Tractor
Archival history
Museum Object Entry Form – 'Description of Object/Collection: Large collection of farm toys (to be listed in more detail on a separate sheet)...', Citation in publication [Newson, R., P. Wade-Martins and A. Little, 'Farming in Miniature Volume 2' Old Pond, 2014] (page 523 / image 22)
Production date
1955 - 1959
Object name
Material
Dimensions
- Length 260 mm
- Width 160 mm
- Height 170 mm
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