Will's Rovex Model Electric Train

Hi Woodsy, 

I bought this original Rovex train set the other day.

 It's long been known that the original cellulose acetate used was prone to distortion, but I'd never seen one as wonderfully bad as this one! 

You?

 Will O

UK

WINDOWS TO THE WORLD

This is a new one on me, the Tri-ang Observation Car. How cool is that! I love that observation dome. It reminds me of other observation areas.

My favourite has to be the sky window of the Nuclear Ferry's front shuttle. The crowning glory [or is that Zero-X?] of the Century 21 Project SWORD toy range, the Nuclear Ferry is a seldom seen beauty. Only around half a dozen are known.

I was lucky enough to have a Ferry on loan for a year and gave it a good once over.

I love how two of the golden passengers have left their seats.

One is stood up near the central rail.

The other is .....

climbing the 'stairs', to where I don't know! 

Have you an observation window?

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Addendum:

Thinking about Arto's fascinating point I went back and checked on the passengers in Robert McCall's original painting.

You can see that it is indeed a cut-out, like Arto says, and not a window.  Intriguingly most of the passengers are sat upside down in the central ball behind the shuttle and no-one is sat down in that!

What really tickled me is that there are indeed two passengers [or crew?] up and about in the main shuttle and one is even climbing the stairs! 

How cool is that! When it came to sticking to the original art, Century 21 Toys really went the extra mile with this toy.

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