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Baggage Porter

Porter on a baggage car, signaling with his left arm

Type
People
Topic
Professions / Industrial
Mechanism
Clockwork
Movement
Moves forward, then turns left, the porter raising his left arm (it turns left because a small wheel staggared 45º lowers to the floor; suitcase can be opened
Materials
Tin
Dimensions (LxWxH cm)
11x6x10
Condition
Excellent
Manufactured
1950 – 1955

Research notes

Marks in the clockwork: "DRGM" and "Foreign". There are two similar toys, one pre-war and US-Zone made by H&K (66 (173) and another made in US-Zone by Martin Fuchs (66 (154). In both cases the man drives a wheel, there are two cases and six wheels, the two in the middle change direction.

Notes

made in Germany

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