Play car

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toy cars
Schuco Examico from 1948 with clockwork and four-speed gearbox
Soapbox Race

A toy car or toy car is in most cases a car similar sighted object, mainly as a toy kids will use.

The range of vehicles extends from elaborately designed, very detailed model cars that are only used for collecting and looking at, through simple four-wheeled objects carved in wood or self- made from tin cans to constructions that a child can sit on and move around with. The latter include the bobby car , the Kettcar , various pedal and slide cars and ultra-modern electric vehicles for children. Famous vehicles were manufactured by Wiking: True-to-original replicas in a ratio of 80: 1, slightly larger-scale model cars were made by Siku and many others.

Metal vehicles are partly equipped with friction motors.

history

When Karl Benz invented the car in 1885 , the first toy car was soon developed. But much earlier, children imitated rolling locomotion in games and with accessories. Wooden wagons, later carriages and covered wagons were the forerunners of the toy cars . While wood was initially the preferred material for toy cars (similar to the rocking horse ), tin toys became more and more fashionable with industrialization.

Small models

After the First World War , there was great demand for mechanically moving toys, mostly with a tense spring, including cars and trains in many formats and shapes. Märklin and Schuco were well-known manufacturers for the German-speaking area. In the 1950s, Schuco was still producing wind-up car models the size of a child's hand, which could move on fine wires, similar to electric locomotives on rails, in self-constructed trains and represented an inexpensive alternative to that more expensive model train hobby .

From the 1960s, when the automobile density also increased in Europe, model cars such. B. from Matchbox, and later even remote-controlled toy cars more and more sales. Also Action -Autospiele as the Darda or Hot Wheels series are offered.

Pedal, sit, roll and slide models

Different play cars

Play cars that you can sit in appeared around the turn of the 20th century and were given the name soap boxes according to their manufacturing principle . From 1904 onwards, Oberursel races were held in Germany . Later, Kettler manufactured the Kettcar named after them and modeled on the bicycle drive . The bobby car was developed to make it easier for young children to learn to walk and has been in production since 1972. Today you can also find battery-powered electric cars in playgrounds, but like all toy models, including electric scooters, they are not approved for road traffic.

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