Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- The Weeden Manufacturing Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts manufactured the Weeden model number 14 from the 1890s until the 1940s. The toy consists of a brass boiler with safety valve, water sight glass, and whistle. The horizontal slide valve engine powers an iron flywheel. The boiler and engine is attached to a six-legged cast iron frame. The side of the boiler has bears the Weeden crest logo that reads “W MFG. CO.”
- The Weeden Manufacturing Company was founded in New Bedford, Massachusetts by William M. Weeden in the early 1880s, originally producing a variety of tinplate household items. In 1884 it introduced the Weeden No. 1 Steam engine as “a new and great premium for boys” who were subscribers to the Youth’s Companion magazine. Weeden made over a hundred different models of toy steam engines until the company ceased operations in 1952.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
- early 20th century
- ID Number
- MC.328959
- catalog number
- 328959
- accession number
- 278175
- Object Name
- toy, steam engine and boiler
- Measurements
- overall: 5 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 5 3/4 in; 14.605 cm x 17.145 cm x 14.605 cm
- flywheel: 3/8 in x 3 1/2 in; x .9525 cm x 8.89 cm
- Related Publication
- Maass, Eleanor A.. Greville Bathe's "Theatre of Machines": The Evolution of a Scholar and His Collection
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- Engineering Steam Toys and Models
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_847203
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-8553-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
