Live Steam Toy Fire Engine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Weedon Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This toy fire engine, with live steam, was likely manufactured by the Weeden Manufacturing Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts. It consists of tinplate, an oscillating engine and pump with a vertical boiler.
label: Description
content: The Weeden Manufacturing Company was founded in 1877. In 1884 it introduced the Weeden No. 1 Steam engine as “a new and great premium for boys” who were subscribers to the <i>Youth’s Companion</i> magazine. Weeden made over a hundred different models of toy steam engines until the company ceased operations in 1952.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, New Bedford
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.328933
label: catalog number
content: 328933
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Toy, Fire Engine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 6 1/2 in x 14 in; 16.51 cm x 35.56 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 14 in; 16.8275 cm x 10.795 cm x 35.56 cm