Design cards, Self-Locking Building Bricks (Kiddicraft ~1947)

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Design 1: Mantlepiece Clock

Design 1: Mantlepiece Clock [image info]

Design 33: Windmill

Design 33: Windmill [image info]

Design 44: Truck

Design 44: Truck [image info]

One of Hilary Page's innovations with the Self-Locking Building Bricks range was to do away with conventional manuals, and put the range of suggested designs on numbered cards, instead. These were more tactile, and it was more fun to build working from a card than from a floppy folded-open instruction manual.

Card introduction:

BUILDING BRICKS

This is a real constructional toy. Do not expect to be able to build all the models on these cards immediately you get the set. It is a practical building toy which will make an endless number of most realistic models.

Try simple designs of your own first before you get on to these more complicated models. Eventually you will probably work out more ambitious plans still. It is essential to exercise care and patience if you are going to make the models perfectly, but every one shown here has been built and can be built from your set.

You will have to follow your plans as carefully as a builder has to follow the plans supplied to him by the architect.

In cutting out the coloured illustrations from the cards, care should be taken to cut along the dotted lines with sharp scissors. Where no dotted line is shown, the picture can be cut right up to the edges. The white card between the actual picture and the dotted line will be hidden inside the bricks.

Extra bricks and other parts can be obtained from any Kiddicraft dealer.

— , Kiddicraft, , Self-Locking Building Blocks, instruction card, , ~1947

Designs 1-45


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