402 - Steam Engine with Circular Saw and Grinding Machine on Wooden Board, Tin Toy, 1950s

Steam Engine with Circular Saw and Grinding Machine on Wooden Board, Tin Toy, 1950s Tinplate, the boiler house black with an embossed brick pattern, the base plate of the engine cream with a red lining stripe. Horizontal model steam engine with transverse boiler, two mounted sockets and safety valve, in the boiler house two round firing openings. On the engine platform the horizontal cylinder in nickel-plated finish and the flywheel with red spokes. With two drive models: a circular saw with saw blade and workbench as well as a grinding machine with grinding wheel, each with a lithographed tin figure of a worker, the models on red lithographed tin bases. All parts are mounted on a light wooden board. Played with, the base plate of the engine with paint chipping. Steam engine H. 17 cm. In the first half of the 20th century drive models such as a circular saw, grinding machine, forge or hammer mill were standard accessories for every toy steam engine: driven by transmission belts, they demonstrated how in a workshop all the machines ran from a single source of power. The movable tin figures at the workbenches turned the physics teaching aid into a small factory scene and are today the real collecting appeal. Mounting on a common wooden board was a usual solution for aligning engine and models permanently with one another.