motor racing
Board Game
1959 t (published)
1959 t (published)
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Design: hand made and painted on card depicting a horse racing track and rectangular paddock and motor racing track
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Parts | This object consists of 181 parts.
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Physical description | Design: hand made and painted on card depicting a horse racing track and rectangular paddock and motor racing track No. of squares: n/a Squares illustrated: n/a Square numbering: n/a Squares titled: n/a Subject of starting square: n/a Subject of ending square: n/a |
Dimensions | Size: 143.7cm x 79.7cm |
Object history | The whole is hand made by various members of one family and used for many years. There are present season notebooks and reference books to the cars and drivers. |
Historical context | Rewards: n/a Forfeits: n/a No. of Players: any Equipment required: motor cars, including police cars game cards and driver's cards and details dice Rules: The game board has two sets of racing, horse and motor cycle. There are 4 folds and 5 panels. The inner rectangle, ringed in purple, denotes a horse racing track. Three different courses are shown and each is laddered by blue lines, 1cm apart. They are edged by a yellow border and contain 2 green and 2 red areas. A cut out magazine picture has been labelled Lantham Castle and there is a paddock with tracks leading to each course. The Motor Racing track rings the inner rectangle. it contains 4 labelled bends and is situated in a patchwork of painted fields. The start of the track is at the bottom ledft of the board and the finish in the checkered area at the top right. There are 4 main panels of rules dispersed on the board. One side of the track is situated on a hill, the other contains the pits. There is an area to place dice. Rules placement: separate book |
Production | hand made, marked a c c, and invented by a c cass, 1959 |
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Accession number | MISC.684:1-1992 |
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Record created | March 4, 2000 |
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