Cox MKVII Rulz!
Freedom for Oppressed Controllers!
Free the Whales!
Liberate the Constricted Boas!
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Freedom for Oppressed Controllers!
Free the Whales!
Liberate the Constricted Boas!
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OK, I have to re-phrase this: I KNEW what company made these, I just forgot because it is not really important... First, controllers are boring, and second, controllers are even more boring.
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Now, such controllers as Brian describes were very popular at the time when you could not buy a RTR car because no one made any except for the rather mediocre 1/32 scale plastic junk from UK or USA, and you had to make your own from either brass chassis kits or scratchbuild from the few bits and pieces available. We are talking 1959 to 1963 here. Several companies in fact made similar controllers, some of them had a bicycle handlebar plastic handle, some did not.
It is not ANY of the well-known companies, and definitely NOT Towerstat. It is an obscure name and I can't recall right now because after a certain age, the brain cells are becoming cottage cheese and I am right about there now.
So I tell you what, the next time I run across a pic or an ad for these, I'll post the results and everyone will be happy.
This was also the era of really WEIRD controllers, and I have a few boxes full of these things, from "electronic" to analog, from intensely funny to down ridiculous. Cox and MRC took care of everybody after 1964. Russkit put everyone to the same level by 1969. Scalextric has still not learned how to build a decent one by 2003, and Carrera still has its 1965 Atlas copy in every set they sold ever since.
Mr. Pea
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Now, such controllers as Brian describes were very popular at the time when you could not buy a RTR car because no one made any except for the rather mediocre 1/32 scale plastic junk from UK or USA, and you had to make your own from either brass chassis kits or scratchbuild from the few bits and pieces available. We are talking 1959 to 1963 here. Several companies in fact made similar controllers, some of them had a bicycle handlebar plastic handle, some did not.
It is not ANY of the well-known companies, and definitely NOT Towerstat. It is an obscure name and I can't recall right now because after a certain age, the brain cells are becoming cottage cheese and I am right about there now.
So I tell you what, the next time I run across a pic or an ad for these, I'll post the results and everyone will be happy.
This was also the era of really WEIRD controllers, and I have a few boxes full of these things, from "electronic" to analog, from intensely funny to down ridiculous. Cox and MRC took care of everybody after 1964. Russkit put everyone to the same level by 1969. Scalextric has still not learned how to build a decent one by 2003, and Carrera still has its 1965 Atlas copy in every set they sold ever since.
Mr. Pea
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