STEPHENSON’S “ROCKET.” 4 collection of toys in the house adjoining the Goethe House at Weimar, Germany, includes a tiny model of a railway train, which was presented to Goethe by English friends in 1829 for his grandsons, Walter and Wolfgang. The locomotive is a copy of George Stephenson's famous "Rocket.” Walter and Wolfgang must have -been very careful lads, for the locomotive, tender and coaches, although made only of pasteboard, show no traces of hard usage,
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 290, 2 September 1933, Page 17
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