Lionel Santa Car with Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Tin Windup Hand Car Train No. 1105 in Original Box *SOLD*

Lionel Santa Car with Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Tin Windup Hand Car Train No. 1105 in Original Box *SOLD*

This is a windup Lionel Santa Car with Mickey Mouse in his gift pack #1105 manufactured by The Lionel Corporation of New York, USA. It features Santa Claus on a hand car with a Christmas tree and Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse in his gift pack. It comes with 8 original track pieces that can be put together to make a round circuit for the hand car to go around. When the key is wound, Santa’s arms go up and down as he goes around the track pumping the hand car. The key that is included is a replacement key as we were not able to find the original. This item is made from a composition of tin, plastic, and rubber. It comes with the original box that is in excellent condition. The hand car is approximately 6 ½” x 7 ½”  x 2”. This is a great item to add to any Disney or Lionel collection!

Lionel Train History.

Engineering entrepreneur Joshua Lionel Cowen designed his first electric train as a store window attraction around 1900. When customers asked to purchase the train instead of the product it advertised, Cowen founded the Lionel Manufacturing Company to meet demand. Lionel built its reputation on train sets noted for their authentic detail, smooth-operating three-rail tracks, and transformers that allowed kids to vary the speed of their trains. This control, along with rolling stock of coal cars, refrigerated cars, and box cars, gave boys an appealing real-world sense of commerce and success.

Shrewd marketing made every boy think of Lionel trains each time Christmas came around. “Everybody is happy when it’s a Lionel Train Christmas,” proclaimed one advertisement. Other ads highlighted father-son bonding. Lionel Trains, they proclaimed, “made a Boy feel like a Man and a Man feel like a Boy.”