A Pair of A.C.Williams Cast Iron Coupes

Friday, June 22, 2012

A Pair of A.C.Williams 

Cast Iron Coupes

     Today's post has to do with 2 A.C.Williams Cast Iron Coupes.  A toy friend from Ireland, Stuart Judd, sent me information about the A.C.Williams Company.

https://www.litemetals.com/early-history

     The company's company's history is at that site. Of course, the cast iron toys stopped production a long time ago, but the company is still in business producing other things today.

     After I had purchased the 2 Williams Coupes on E-Bay, I realized that they are almost the same car, but for their different sizes. I recently purchased an old out-of-print  pair of books titled Dictionary of Toys Sold in America written by Earnest and Ida Long of California. They also are the publishers. In that book, I noticed that many of the old toy models from the 1920's-30's came in  different sizes. It wasn't uncommon to see the same toy design but ranging from small to medium to large.

You can see that the 2 cars are very similar to each other.

The smaller-sized one that's missing most of its paint just has different wheels (tires).

The larger red car measures 6"(L) x 2" (W) x 2 3/4" (H) or  153mm x 51mm x70mm.

The smaller car with almost no paint measures 5" (L) x 2" (W) x 2'(H) or 128mm x 51mm x 51mm

Their respective weights are 1.07 pounds and 9.1 ounces or 474 grams and 261 grams

It's always interesting to discover new information about old toys, and to pass it on to my readers.

That's it for today, and I'll see you tomorrow.

Have a nice weekend, wherever you may be.