Metalcraft Corp. Pressed Steel Private Label Sunshine Biscuits Stake Truck for Sale *SOLD*

Metalcraft Corp. Pressed Steel Private Label Sunshine Biscuits Stake Truck

This is a great kids’ toy that was a survivor.  It is a private-label truck by Metalcraft of St. Louis, MO!

The stake truck advertises Sunshine Biscuits in yellow, with a contrasting red cab and a blue stake bead.  Grill and wheels are the early variety ca. 1929 and silver all metal design.

These trucks have a great presence and tend to rust away, so this is a very clean original example with kid wear on the roof and toys.

A brief history of Metalcraft Corp. of St Louis, Missouri:  

1920 – 1938  

Founder: George R. Ericson   

Specialty: Playground equipment such as teeter-totters. They produced pressed-steel trucks in 1928 and acquired the rights to the pressed-steel airplane kit of Lindbergh’s “Spirit of St. Louis”. They produced millions of toy truck premiums known as “Business Leaders”; the Coca-Cola trucks with small glass Coke bottles were one of the most famous of these. Metalcraft Corporation like so many others during the Great Depression, ended up closing their doors in 1938.