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Mutoscope Travelling Crane



Exhibit Supply Co. Novelty Merchantman

Exhibit Supply Co. Novelty Merchantman

Hi , With Christmas on the way our thoughts turn to presents and toys for the kids or grandkids ... Well you can keep your X-Box's, computer games and the like ..... This is what I call a present...



THE REMCO PENNY MACHINE....
From Coney Island Toys..... circa 1958... I want one, and I want it NOW!..

And below is a pic of the 1958 display box.

More modern toy versions of the real thing - based on a rotary merchandiser and a crane.

Scientific Machine Corporation Panama Digger, c1928.

MY 1956 CHICAGO COIN STEAM SHOVEL

I have now got to a point were I can call it finished, please enjoy

Very nice Stuart ................. and may I say ............ you blow a mean trumpet!

Badpenny wrote:Very nice Stuart ................. and may I say ............ you blow a mean trumpet!

Hi BP , I always like to blow my own trumpet at times like this!!!! LOL.... on a different note... do you get it?...note ...music!....never mind..... do you remember about 2 years ago when you bought my last bandit? and I was giving up collecting.... again..... well thanks to the Imperator incident last year I seem to be getting another room full of machines, mainly EMs this time ..... it's funny how things turn out, anyway here's to the next project.... whatever it may be!!

Stunning work, I came across one of these when I visited San Francisco at the Musee Mechanique Museum on Pier 45.

If you ever get the chance to visit this stunning city you have to make a trip to this museum, it is free and a lot of fun. Amazing array of slots, working models etc. I know PennyMachines posted a few links to Youtube Videos of the stuff on display. They appear to have updated their website and have included a lot of stills of the machines now:
Musee Mechanique

Williams Crane Game, 1950s
This one's for Kevin


As you can see it looks almost the same as the Chicago Coin Steam Shovel see below

Mutoscope Crane

hello
is there a film of the cams working
i need to know which way they run
many thanks

Hello,

I posted a new movie with just the cam. It turns towards you.

gr
timo

Thanks for posting film of the cams working. I have two Electric Travelling Cranes to fix.
Many thanks.

I have restored two mutoscope cranes myself, and several other european models. If you need any info contact me at muller.t@home.nl

gr

Exhibit Supply Co. Iron Claw

Electro Hoist Traveling Crane, Star Machine Mfrs., Inc., 1930s.
See X-Cavator & Electro-Hoist Digger advertisements.

1930s BUCKLEY DIGGER.

Hi all
I am in the middle of a Buckley digger project, and I am looking for any parts for the overhead cam mech, also a dumore type motor to run it "see poor quality photo " of the bits I need, so if you do have any thing that fits the bill, be it new, old, working, broken or other ... and you want to sell, please PM me with details and we will see if we can do a deal....
I would also welcome any good hi-rez photos of the Buckley overhead cam mech and the machine's workings in general...

Unidentified electro-mechanical U.S. crane with overhead bridge rail.