Joe K. Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 1970.Are you thinking this might be a souvenir from the expo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roboz Posted March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted March 14, 2016 Most of these figural whistles were made in the 1920's as a few dealers in the know have explained it to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe K. Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Any idea what the "UI" stands for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbit Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Yes Joe, I was thinking a souvenir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultrarobotman Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Yeah, man, now we're talkin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe K. Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Yes Joe, I was thinking a souvenir. If so, I wonder if it's in here:http://www.ebay.com/itm/EXPO70-goods-collection-book-2016-3-14-Contents-Introduction-Was-held-in-1970-/121923275560?hash=item1c63318b28:g:VakAAOSwAuNW5YF9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunik Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Wikipedia's list of World's Fairs has the following entry: 1903 Osaka, Japan National Industrial Exhibition Not too early for a Zeppelin craze. If Osaka was a place for major exhibitions, such a souvenir could well have been created in any other year, need not be a World's Fair, not a fair at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinplate6 Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Gentlemen, I think I found the inspiration, and it's not a rocket, or a zeppelin... Here's Belgian race car driver Camille Jenatzy and his torpedo-shaped electric speed record car. The "La Jamais Contente" was the first purpose-designed land speed racer. On April 1899, Jenatzy reached 105.88 km/h (65 mph), the first record over 100 km/h (62 mph). The sound the whistle makes would represent the car whizzing down the racetrack. The tail fins and nosecone are obviously artistic license, the vents on each side were necessary to make the whistle work. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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roboz Posted March 15, 2016 Author Share Posted March 15, 2016 Gernot mentioned this 1928 opel-rak although that contente is pretty close too albeit with no finsTinplate that was a nice find as propotionally it's really really close to the design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunik Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 and it fits to Osaka 1903 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinplate6 Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 My guess is the car was on display at the 1903 World's Fair, however, I couldn't find any records of that from the internet, so, we may never know for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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