Matchbox Police Car, 1979
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Imaginative children do not need manufactured travel toys to occupy themselves while on long road trips. Two boys played with this Matchbox police car and other playthings while traveling with their parents.
Imaginative children do not need manufactured travel toys to occupy themselves while on long road trips. Two boys played with this Matchbox police car and other playthings while traveling with their parents.
Artifact
Toy car
Date Made
1979
Keywords
On Exhibit
at Henry Ford Museum in Driving America
Object ID
2011.266.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Elliott and Daniel Raupagh.
Material
Metal
Plastic
Color
White (Color)
Black (Color)
Blue
Dimensions
Height: 1 in
Width: 1.0625 in
Length: 3 in
Inscriptions
Printed on hood and trunk: Metro / POLICE / TRAFFIC / CONTROL Top: 012 Stamped into bottom: MATCHBOX / Superfast / no. 10 PLYMOUTH GRAN FURY / copyright 1979 MADE IN ENGLAND / LESNEY PRODUCTS
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