Junior Flyer Skate Board

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Artist/Maker	Mettoy Ltd (manufacturers)
Place of origin	United Kingdom (made)

9-ply plywood elliptically shaped board with a graphic printed in red showing the name. There are two sets of black plastic double wheels with metal trucks attached to the underside of the board, one at each end.

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Categories	Play Children & Childhood Outdoor Games & Toys
Object type	Skateboard
Title	Junior Flyer Skate Board (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques	plywood decked, metal trucks, plastic wheels Plywood Metal Plastic
Brief description	Junior Flyer Skate Board made in the UK by Mettoy in the late 1960s
Physical description	9-ply plywood elliptically shaped board with a graphic printed in red showing the name. There are two sets of black plastic double wheels with metal trucks attached to the underside of the board, one at each end.
Dimensions	Length: 58cm Width: 16cm Depth: 8cm
Style	Mid 20th Century
Production type	Mass produced
Gallery label	(01/06/2017) Skateboards Many of the earliest manufactured skateboards had plywood ‘decks’ (boards). These designs, made of simple cut-out sheets of flat ply, could be easily recreated at home by attaching repurposed wheels to a sawn piece of plywood. Board shapes changed to suit new styles of skateboarding, most obviously in the late 1980s when they started to be moulded with kicktails at either end. From the late 1970s skateboarders began to build large, plywood-clad DIY ramps so they could skate in the freestyle way that increasingly defined the sport. 1. Roller Derby Skate Board 1959–60 Manufactured by Roller Derby La Mirada, California, USA Painted 5-ply plywood; steel trucks and wheels V&A: B.9-2017 2. Junior Flyer Skate Board About 1969 Manufactured by Mettoy Solihul, Britain 9-ply plywood with printed graphic, steel trucks, rubber wheels V&A: B.10-2017 3. Homemade plywood skateboard About 1975 Maker unknown Trucks re-used from a Pro Class skateboard, with Free Roller wheels 9-ply plywood, steel trucks and polyurethane wheels USA (possibly New York) V&A: B.11-2017 Plywood: Material of the Modern World V&A 15 July - 12 November 2017
Associated objects	B.11-2017 (Object) B.9-2017 (Object)
Collection	Young V&A Collection
Accession number	B.10-2017

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Record created	December 21, 2016
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1375351/junior-flyer-skate-board-skateboard-mettoy-ltd/

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