Automobile model
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- OBJECT TYPE
- spring driven motor
- DATE
- 1950
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2011.0011.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Ford Custom Fordor
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Rigid neutral colour moulded synthetic model car body has black rubber (?) tires, silver metal bumpers and hub caps; underside of model is metal; model has silver mirrored windows.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 18.6 cm
- Width
- 6.5 cm
- Height
- 6.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Motorized Ground Transportation
- Category
- Models
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Nova Scotia
- Period
- This version of model produced c. 1949- 1951. This model played with as a toy c. 1950- 1960.
- Canada
-
Ce modèle a été remis à un acheteur de voiture Ford Custom Tudor lors de l’achat. [Ref. 1] - Function
-
Used as a promotional tool. - Technical
-
Dealer promotional models like this one exist at least since the 1920’s but seems to have been popular, particularly during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Most large automobile manufacturers would use this promotional tool mostly to help out the customer to visualize the car models in different colors. Some were for sale also or to give away. L’automobile Ford de modèle Custom a été introduite pour l’année 1949. Il était offert en version Tudor [2 portes) et Fordor (4 portes). Il s’agissait du premier nouveau modèle de Ford après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Il a remporté un grand succès. On dit qu’il s’agit du modèle qui sauva Ford. Ce modèle de cette automobile est en fait le modèle Fordor de la série Custom et non pas le Tudor acheté par M. Brooks. Il fonctionnait en remontant un mécanisme. (moteur à friction) [Ref. 1] - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None evident.
- Missing
- Two window panels missing from driver's side doors.
- Finish
- Rigid neutral colour moulded synthetic model car body has black rubber (?) tires, silver metal bumpers and hub caps; underside of model is metal; model has silver mirrored windows.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Automobile model, circa 1950, Artifact no. 2011.0011, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2011.0011.001/
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