Category:Spring-hauled slot car systems
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The cheap battery-powered "Minisport" toy [image info]
Spring-hauled slot car systems.
A small number of "spring-driven" slotcar systems appeared in the 1950s/1960s, in which the slots contained a circuit of spring pulled around by an electric motor, and the cars had pegs attached to their bases that then engaged with the circulating spring.
In the UK, we had the Matchbox Motorway system, apparently licensed from the Biller patent. At some point there was also a Chad Valley version of the larger Biller/Matchbox set M3, with a central roundabout.
In the US, Kenner Toys also produced Minisport, a very cheap two-lane fixed figure-of-eight-track with bridge permanently embedded in a rectangular base, aimed at smaller children and described as a "game".
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Accessory Pack, angle (Matchbox Motorway X1).jpg 1,600 × 1,115; 1.14 MB
Accessory Pack, box base (Matchbox Motorway X1).jpg 1,600 × 799; 890 KB
Accessory Pack, box top (Matchbox Motorway X1).jpg 1,600 × 798; 788 KB
Extension Set, box lid (Matchbox Motorway E2).jpg 1,200 × 762; 671 KB
Minisport Raceway game, Kenner Toys (Schwarz 1966).jpg 2,377 × 1,563; 1.3 MB
Patent application, Hans Biller, Matchbox Motorway (GB1029649 1965).jpg 1,443 × 1,032; 226 KB
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