BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1931, Page 20 (Supplement)

BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

A TOY RAILWAY TRUCK. This strong toy will please the small brother and is not at all difficult to make. Cut floor of the truck from three-eighths-inch wood to the sizes given in Diagram A. Plane both sides, and plane the edges square. The two sides, which are seven and a half inches long and two and a half inches wide, should be cut from wood a quarter of an inch thick. Use wood of the same thickness for the ends 8.8. which measure three and a half inches by two and a half inches. Nail the sides to the ends, as shown in the first diagram, and make sure that the lower edges all rest evenly on . the floor of the truck. Nail the floor to the sides and eu<k from underneath, allowing a quarter of an inch of the floor to project at each end. Cut the axle blocks C.C. to the sizes given in Diagram D, making each block three inches long as indicated. Screw the blocks to the floor of the truck in the positions indicated by-dotted lines in Diagram A. Two screws to each block will be sufficient. The wheels should be one and a half inches in diameter, and may be wood or iron. Each wheel is held in place by mmimmiiimiiiiiiimimitmitiimitiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiitiimm

a stout round-headed screw. When making the holes in the axle blocks for these screws, see that they are exactly seven-eighths of an inch from the floor on each side of the truck. Small brass knobs with screwed stems, like that shown at E, can be used for buffers. Screw a pair into each end of the truck floor, about three inches apart. Midway between each pair of buffers screw in a small brass cup-hook, like that shown at F. You can now paint the finished truck, using dark brown for the body and axle blocks, black for the floor and wheels, and red for the buffers. If you are handy with your paint brush, you can paint the initial letters of a railway on each side of the truck, and also the lines to represent the side door. This should be done in white paint. The Hut Carpenter.