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Saturday, 9 January 2021

Captain Scarlet Magicar Pursuit Set by Triang Rovex


We have perviosly seen some static images of the two Captain Scarlet 'magicar' sets on the blog, featuring a unique stop/go action. Captain Scarlet afficianado Terry has provided us with a video of the set in action and an explanation of how the special motor actually works! 

The Triang/Rovex ‘Magicar’ motor iln all its glory an inside out version of the typical electrical motor. Whereas cutting the supply to one coil field would result in a stop/start activation of the motor Triang/Rovex flipped this upside down and put the magnet on the spindle/axis and a coil field around the outside. This resulted in the ability to start and stop the the motor by simply stopping the vehicle . A cranked motor spindle acting on the end acted like a set of points or contact breakers on a combustion engine.


Terry Harle Collection


Pics courtesy of Ebay

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6 comments:

  1. WOODSY1/09/2021 6:14 pm

    Amazing! Never seen it in action! Thanks Terry and Wotan! What a great toy.

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  2. WOTAN1/09/2021 7:30 pm

    Theres one on ebay right now!

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  3. Paul Adams from New Zealand1/09/2021 8:24 pm

    Thank you. It is great to see this set in action at last. Just had a look at Ebay - https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=captain+scarlet+triang&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=captain+scarlet
    The prices are a bit out of my league. But nice to see that some of these sets are still around.

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  4. WOODSY1/10/2021 9:29 am

    Fascinating to see how it actually works! Ingenious!

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  5. WOTAN1/10/2021 10:12 am

    They aren’t cheap for themost part, but very scarce and in line with most Anderson memorabilia

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  6. ZigguratSF20001/10/2021 6:58 pm

    Too. Cool. For. Words. Wow!

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