Pride Lines Ltd 1980s Walt Disney Productions Pinocchio's Mobile Hand Car No1940

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Description: Pride Lines Ltd. 1980s Walt DisneyProductions Pride Lines Pinocchio's Mobile Hand Car No. 1940
For sale is the Toy Walt Disney Productions Pinocchio'sMobile Hand Car No. 1940 manufactured by Pride Lines Ltd. in the 1980s as a reproductionof the original 1930s version.
This Pride Lines Ltd. Pinocchio’s Mobile No. 1940 HandCar to the best of my knowledge has never been used. The electrical trackconnector is still in a small plastic bag that is stapled to the side of the boxin the lower right hand corner of the box’s bottom half.
On one side of the Hand Car is the WaltDisney Character Pinocchio and on the other side of the Hand Car is the WaltDisney Jiminy Cricket.
This information is provided on the internet by the Train Collectors Association Western Division
about Pride Lines Ltd.:
“ Joyce and John Davanzo operated Pride Lines, Ltd., manufacturers of beautiful modern, American-made tinplate trains, for over 30 years. Itwas established in 1977 and incorporated in New York. The trains they made were mostly reproductions of famous toy trains from the early 20th Century.
Pride Lines Ltd. secured a license from Walt Disney ProductionsMerchandising Division for the design, manufacture and sale of certain unique collectibles featuring the Walt Disney Productions Copyrighted fanciful characters. Under this license arrangement with Disney, Pride Lines madeDisney-themed mechanical banks, trolleys and trains.
Pride Lines went on to create many original whimsical Disney themed train items including a mining train with Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs in1987, a hand-car featuring Scrooge McDuck with his bag of money, and a hand-car featuring Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket. The original Lionel version released in the 1930s was clockwork powered. Pride Line's version was electrically powered and featured a ringing bell. Otherwise no changes
were made to the original design. Dis
ney did present some new requirements however, since over 50 years had elapsed, and several changes in allowable materials were enacted by companies selling items to children. Non-toxic finishes had to be used, such as baked enamel, and all metal edges had to be carefully softened. Most importantly, operating reliability had to be high. Pride Lines did alter the casting material used for the characters from the fragile and unstable papier-mâché of the original to the same unbreakable resin based materials utilized in the Tencennial Streetcar characters. Joh
n Davanzo designed his own electric motor along with the worm and spur gearing, after along and unsuccessful attempt to locate a manufacturer with an existing power plant that would fit the project. The resulting finished electrified product was a smooth runner and a big seller. As well, it was a dead ringer for the original Lionel version, which was already a popular and desirable piece
of Disney memorabilia. Pride Lines built off of the simple hand-car chassis to issue a whole series of these with all sorts of famous and recognizable Disney characters pumping the fulcrum handles.”
This Toy Walt Disney Productions Pride Lines Pinocchio'sMobile Hand Car No. 1940 and tracks has these characteristics.
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Materials of Construction:
Hand Car: Tin based material for hand car and metal for the hand operated bar. Characters are molded from resin.
Tracks: Metal
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Condition:
The Toy Walt Disney ProductionsPride Lines Pinocchio's Mobile Hand Car No. 1940 and Tracks in its Original Box is like brand new. There is some wear on one of the wheels, but I am not certain if this is from use.
I did not test the Hand Car to determine if it works
These pictures are part of the description for this “Toy Walt Disney Productions Pride Lines Pinocchio'sMobile Hand Car No. 1940 and Track.
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Dimensions:
The dimensions of the
Pinocchio’s Hand Car No.1940
are overall 2 inches Wide by 9 inches Long by 6 ½ inches High.
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Markings:
On the Side Car is printed “Pinocchio's / Walt. Disney Productions / wood-Mobile/ No. 1940 / Pride Lines Ltd., N.Y. / Made in the U.S. of America”.
On the Track is stamped “Lionel” in several places.
This
Toy Walt Disney Productions Pride LinesPinocchio's Mobile Hand Car No. 1940
will be shipped via USPS Priority Mail. Thanks for looking.