Farm Truck & Animals (Marx, Boxed, 285mm)

Farm Truck & Animals. Made by Marx in the 1960s - 1970s. This old platsic USA toy is in excellent original condition. It is a battery powered truck which would have moved in circles while the chicken heads bobbed up & down. It does work but it does not come with batteries. The box is in fair condition with 1 end flap missing. There doesn't appear to be anything missing or broken. Only 1 available. This toy is 285mm long, 115mm wide & 116mm high. This item is not suitable for children.
Louis Marx & Company was founded in 1919 in New York City by Louis Marx and his brother David. Marx's toys included tinplate buildings, tin toys, toy soldiers, playsets, toy dinosaurs, mechanical toys, toy guns, action figures, dolls, dollhouses, diecast toy cars, and HO scale and O scale trains. Marx's less expensive toys were extremely common in dime stores, and its larger, costlier toys were staples for catalog retailers such as Sears and Montgomery Ward, especially around Christmas. Initially, Marx produced few original toys by predicting the hits and manufacturing them less expensively than the competition. By 1922, both Louis and David Marx were millionaires. Unlike most companies, Marx's revenues grew during the Great Depression. Marx was the largest toy manufacturer in the world by the 1950s. The company slowly lost its preeminence from then on & in 1972, Marx sold his company to the Quaker Oats Company for $54 million and retired at the age 76. The Marx company name has changed hands numerous times. However, despite the similar name, none of the Marx-branded companies of today can claim a direct lineage to the original Louis Marx and Company.