1949 MINITOYS INC AD
bumpers on each end caused it to re- verse when it struck an object and the trolley pole to turn. These were fea- tures GMC’s lacked. It has been re- vived from time to time in different col- ors and improvements, and many survive.
How many GMC/Kroll Kar Co./Emco O and S gauge/Ken Kidder versions still exist?
PITTMAN 1/4” SCALE AND TINPLATE TROLLEY
motorman on each end. “Just the thing to meet your trains! If you want your stations and towns to look like the real thing...” (Lionel 1955
catalog copy.) By this time, Lionel no longer included prices in its catalogs, but Sears sold it that year in its Christ- mas catalog for $7.75. Spring metal
In the later half of the twentieth cen- tury streetcars all but disappeared ex- cept in a few North American cities such as New Orleans, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Toronto, only to mount a return in the last decade or so. Lucky fans can find older cars in museums, where some are in operation for visitors to relive the past if old enough to remember seeing or having ridden them and younger fans can discover them for the first time. Period advertising car cards above the windows remind us of the era from which they came. For tinplate and scale hobbyists, trolleys never die as long as models of them survive or con- tinue to be made. Do any readers care to comment on GMC’s different Birney reincarnations or Minitoys’ Brill to re- late what they were like?
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