War Toys for Boys!

by A. Neely Hall
reprinted by Lindsay Publications

Just what every boy needs! Violent toys!

Here, reprinted from "Carpentry & Mechanics for Boys," published during the First World War are plans to show boys how to build toys so they could imagine they were part of the Great War.

I'm told you're going through your second (or is it your third?) childhood. So this inexpensive booklet should appeal to you.

You can get in on the action by building a fleet of battleships and staging sea battles. Remember these are the old battleships - the dreadnoughts with very high observation towers.

Build working toy artillery pieces from wood and tubing that hurl half inch diameter shells into enemy lines.

Build a submarine that sinks to the bottom, drops its ballast, and then surfaces - again from 2x4's spools, tin cans, and the like.

And just what every kid needs is a machine gun. Build a firing "replica" of a WWI machine gun complete with a twelve round magazine holding
3/8" diameter ammo. Get some of your buddies together and set up a machine gun nest in the front yard and terrorize your neighbors! Be careful when the SWAT team arrives, though.

And of course dumb little boys think drilling with a 9 pound piece on their shoulder is fun. (Just wait until they're in the Army. They'll really find out how much fun it is!). But here are diagrams and patterns for building replicas of a Springfield rifle with bayonet so neighborhood kids can drill while wearing their wash-basin helmets.

All plans are dimensioned, and the how-to text is detailed. So build some of these things. Go ahead. Make a fool of yourself marching around in the front yard with a wash basin on your head. Or maybe you can make these toys for your kids, or grandkids, or sell them at craft flea-markets, or something. Maybe the ATF will arrest you. ...ain't my problem...

Get a copy of this. Quality. Low-cost. Top rate how-to. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages

No. 22490 ... $5.95