Name/Title
Toy Train EngineEntry/Object ID
65??Description
This is a large Murray Ohio Manufacturing Steelcraft Ride-On locomotive train. The model is Railway Express 1515 made about 1930.
Steelcraft toys were made by Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co., a Cleveland firm that opened in 1919 to make parts for that recent invention, the automobile.
By 1923, Murray also was making toy cars using the steel and production methods it used to manufacture full-size car parts.
The toys were marketed as Steelcraft Wheel Goods. This diversity helped Murray survive the Depression.
The company's pedal cars, airplanes, coaster wagons, bicycles and smaller wheeled toys were marked 'Steelcraft', the identification seen by today's collector. Murray has made many other products, including lawn mowers and tractors. It even made special-order toy trucks that looked like a customer's full-size delivery trucks.Acquisition
Notes
Mr. John Poland, Nov 10, 1965. Used as a child
