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At the New York Toy Fair in March of 1955 the Charles William Doepke Mfg. Co. introduced two "new concepts in toy design;" the Rolybird and the Yardbird. The Rolybird was marketed as a sidewalk toy with unique safety features over other pedal toys of the time. First, it had a very low center or gravity making it almost impossible for the driver to tip it over. Second it's basic construction served as a roll cage surrounding the operator with safety. The toy was well made - up to the established high quality standards of the Doepke Model Toys line. Was it ever produced in quantity? No one knows for sure. There are only a few (less than a handful) known to have survived. The example pictured on the following pages has been RESTORED (by myself). The colors are as close as I could come using the color ad shown at right. (Source and date of this ad are unknown.) |
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