Self locking building bricks

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This object consists of 90 parts, some of which may be located elsewhere.

Artist/Maker	Kiddicraft Ltd. (manufacturer) Page, Hilary Harry Fisher (designer)
Place of origin	Purley (designed) England (made)

Kiddicraft self locking building bricks, moulded plastic, and instruction book. Bricks are of moulded plastic, in blue, red, yellow, green and white and sized as half bricks and whole bricks. They are moulded with 4 or 8 small knobs on the top surface, a slit down two opposing sides (to hold door and window frames), and each brick has Kiddicraft with a different number inside.

Object details

Categories	Dolls & Toys Children & Childhood Access_to_Images 2003 Games SCRAN Construction Toys
Object type	Building brick
Parts	This object consists of 90 parts. Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Building Brick Instruction Book
Materials and techniques	Plastic Plastic
Brief description	Building bricks, Kiddicraft, England, 1950-1955
Physical description	Kiddicraft self locking building bricks, moulded plastic, and instruction book. Bricks are of moulded plastic, in blue, red, yellow, green and white and sized as half bricks and whole bricks. They are moulded with 4 or 8 small knobs on the top surface, a slit down two opposing sides (to hold door and window frames), and each brick has Kiddicraft with a different number inside.
Dimensions	Half brick length: 1.25in Whole brick length: 2.5in Brick width: 1.25in Brick depth: 0.875in Doors height: 3in Doors width: 1.375in Windows, minimum height: 1.5in Windows, minimum width: 1.375in Windows, maximum height: 2.5in Windows, maximum width: 1.5in taken from register
Marks and inscriptions	SELF LOCKING BUILDING BRICKS / A KIDDICRAFT 'SENSIBLE' TOY / DESIGNED BY / HILARY PAGE / MADE IN ENGLAND (Inside the whole bricks)
Gallery label	28. BUILDING BRICKS: SELF-LOCKING BRICKS Made by Kiddicraft Ltd., Great Britain, about 1947 Plastic Given by Professor and Mrs. R Naylor Misc.784:2 to 75-1992 In the 1930s Hilary Page of Kiddicraft introduced the Interlocking Building Cube as part of a range of 'sensible' toys made from plastic. At the outset a special company was formed to produce it, as experimentation with plastic toys was considered by his co-directors to be too much of a business risk. Lego, which came later (1950s), worked on a similar principle but contained smaller tubes which increased the stability of the structure.
Credit line	Given by Prof. and Mrs P. Taylor
Collection	Young V&A Collection
Accession number	MISC.784:1 to 90-1992

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Record created	March 28, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O148455/self-locking-building-bricks-building-brick-page-hilary-harry/

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