Topic: Aero Car toy car model, produced by Blomer + Schüler ca. 1950.

[grobmotorix]

Who knows this car?

[kwgibbs]

Is it a bruce macall drawing?

[grobmotorix]

No, but I must help here a little bit.

It has been realized, but in a different way you might think...

[kwgibbs]

Looks like it,s built for speed?

[grobmotorix]

No 

[gilescooperuk]

Well it is the only car I have seen with a giant pencil sharpener coming out of the nose....

[kwgibbs]

This car is crazy,looks like the front could suck in smog ?

[grobmotorix]

pencil sharpener

It´s actual size is very near to a bigger pencil sharpener, really.

I know this one is quite off-topic, but I´d like to carry this on, despite the fact that this actually is a toy car.

Maybe someone knows the name and brand?

This car is crazy,looks like the front could suck in smog

It´s a fold-out propeller!

[Zerk]

It's a toy flying car made by Jumbo. It looks a bit like a 1950 Nash from the front.

[grobmotorix]

Not this one...

[grobmotorix]

The funny thing is that it has been built as an art object in large scale, too...!

[fyreline]

I believe that this is a clockwork tin toy "Flying Car" made in West Germany by the Blomer & Schuler company from about 1948-1950. There were wings that unfolded out of the sides as well. I've seen a red one illustrated in a few reference books on tin toy cars, although that one seemed to lack the folding front propeller.

[Bill Murray]

Just to back up fyreline and not looking to steal a point, I found the same manufacturer with both a green and a red version of what seems to be the same toy.

Bill

[fyreline]

Thanks, Bill. The look of the car jogged my memory, and I went (as I usually do with these quizzes) to my bookshelves and found the car in a reference book on metal toys. I guess I should have then googled Blomer & Schuler, which I just now got around to doing . . . And a bit down the page, there was the green car you spoke of, propeller and all, and the illustration Grob used is in fact the box top for the toy.

Note: Some of the written material calls this toy an "aeromobile"' but I don't know if that was an actual Blomer & Schuler designation, or if it appeared on the toy or the box. Just thought I would mention it in case it is considered part of the complete answer.

Further Note: If you google "Blomer & Schuler aeromobile", you will find that (A) This toy was made in a couple different versions, (B) There were at least two different boxes, and (C) The name "Aeromobile" does, in fact, appear on the later series box top which is said to be from 1952.

[grobmotorix]

fyreline get´s the point!

It´s the Aero Car, produced by Blomer + Schüler around 1952.

And here is the real big scale version, made by a contemporary artist, Ydessa Hendeles:

[fyreline]

I was hoping that when you said a full-scale version had been built, you would provide a photograph . . . And you did not disappoint!   

Wow.

[grobmotorix]

Well, here´s the model car standing in front of its box as I´ve seen and admired it at the fabulous Nuremberg toy museum
(a 4 story building full of fantastic memories!) some weeks ago:

[Otto Puzzell]

So, if it were driven on land, would dwarfs be employed to do so? Otherwise, those fold-in wings would decapitate the driver and passengers!

[fyreline]

Well, yes, if you're going to drag reality into this and ruin everything . . .  

It might be said that anyone who thought they could get this thing up in the air with a tiny propeller like that was a little "short" in the cranial department anyway, so who knows, maybe those wings would clear them! In any case, truly a fun puzzle and worth it just to see that full-size creation.

[grobmotorix]

 

a little "short" in the cranial department

[RayTheRat]

Well, here´s the model car standing in front of its box as I´ve seen and admired it at the fabulous Nuremberg toy museum
(a 4 story building full of fantastic memories!) some weeks ago:

Kool!