Una Twin Cockpit River Launch, clockwork (Hornby Speedboats, post-war)
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Una Twin Cockpit River Launch, clockwork (Hornby Speedboats, post-war)Post-war Hornby Speedboat, No.3, "UNA" (i) |
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Arch Two , Area 25 The Legend of Hornby |
Shelf 5 |
A red and white Hornby "MODEL 3" clockwork toy speed boat, Twin cockpit river launch, named Una", with its original box, made by Meccano Ltd., Liverpool, circa 1956.
The boat has a red hull, yellow deck, blue seats, and a blunt split-window "vee-shaped" windshield. The two seating cutouts are fore and aft, each to hold two people.
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- " Fashioned on the type of pleasure launch seen in large numbers on British rivers in summertime "