Hubley Cast Iron Racecar

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Hubley Race Car cast iron

Here is a great offering by Hubley in decadent red with silver highlights.  It is a racer with driver and has heavy cast iron and rubber tires.  The size is about 6″ long.

Paint condition is very good, if not excellent for the age with some chips on the drivers head but body.  There are minor chips on the bumper and abrasions on the windshield top.  Rubber tires are ages with cracks as expected but there.  Right rear tire is a replacement.

These late pre-war Hubleys tend to be harder to find, especially in this condition.  Then a racer in red is always a special find.

Hubley Mfg. Co. Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1894 to date
Slogan: “They`re Different”
Founder: John E. Hubley
Specialty: Brand name: Lancaster Brand Iron Toys. Originally manufactured electric toy train equipment and parts. Purchased Safety Buggy Co. factory and moved to site in 1909. First manufactured cast-iron toys, horse-drawn wagons and fire engines, circus trains, and cap guns. Toy autos became the headliners in 1930s. By quickly converting to cheaper smaller toys during the Depression, they avoided financial woes experienced by many other toy companies. Iron shortages in WWII and commitments to fill war contracts did stop the toy division in 1942, until after the war.. The name was later changed to Gabriel Industries and still existed as a division of CBS as of 1978.