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Re: Victorian theme - a few questions
« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2010, 21:59:21 »
Thanks for the history lesson everyone! :D

I guess I will quit the groaning, and use my imagination, which I guess was intended in the first place - a universal series that could be any country in the late 1800's early 1900's.

For me, a typical Victorian London street

Still, no British policeman >:( ;D

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Re: Victorian theme - a few questions
« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2010, 22:10:35 »
Great piece of history indeed Tiermann and Gordon!!! Thank you for clearing out these questions!

Damo, look at the lights on the windshield. Actual modet t has them rectangular just like the playmobil car...just a thought, not that it makes it more ford than rolls.... ;)

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Re: Victorian theme - a few questions
« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2010, 08:02:55 »
Spot on, Damo!   And you can always search for the elusive PlayPeople "bobby".

Oh I have one - and a spare hat! ;D



Damo, look at the lights on the windshield. Actual modet t has them rectangular just like the playmobil car...just a thought, not that it makes it more ford than rolls.... ;)

I'm afraid it's a Rolls Royce for me 0)

I just had a thought, you know Playmobil's usual them for vehicles is based German German German, it isn't a German car possibly?


Mercedes Simplex (1902)

Look at the headlamps, and the side lamps :o

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Re: Victorian theme - a few questions
« Reply #13 on: August 19, 2010, 08:41:58 »
You may well be right, Damo, or it could  be an American Lafrance:

http://forums.aaca.org/attachments/f169/25651d1231429620-american-lafrance-speedsters-32495.jpg

It's a generic design, and have you notoced that the Mercedes in your photo has right hand drive?
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Re: Victorian theme - a few questions
« Reply #14 on: August 19, 2010, 08:48:59 »
You may well be right, Damo, or it could  be an American Lafrance:

http://forums.aaca.org/attachments/f169/25651d1231429620-american-lafrance-speedsters-32495.jpg

It's a generic design, and have you notoced that the Mercedes in your photo has right hand drive?

I suppose Playmobil designed it with a combination of features - so it can be any car you want it to be depending on where you are in the world :cloud9:

No, I didn't notice it was right hand drive :eh?:

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Re: Victorian theme - a few questions
« Reply #15 on: August 19, 2010, 09:40:33 »
I think we can conclude that, based on early 1900's car design, its not easy to asses which of all the above cars the playmobil one is designed after... 8} 8} 8} 8} 8} 8} 8}

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Tell you what though, I have a friend who is a classic car collector, real ones... He has a silver spirit...she is a beauty!!!!

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Re: Victorian theme - a few questions
« Reply #16 on: August 19, 2010, 15:29:23 »
i once saw a car like this one in greece on the street an old man was driving it it was about 2000-1  :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
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Re: Victorian theme - a few questions
« Reply #18 on: August 19, 2010, 19:00:13 »
The spirits rule !!!!

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Re: Victorian theme - a few questions
« Reply #19 on: August 19, 2010, 19:02:27 »


 the plastick of the klicky seems to be kind of special shiny it is playpeople i guess??

It is.
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