When the first gasoline pumps entered into service, the epoch of the modern toy had been underway for some decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The perfection of manufacturing technologies and a society-wide increase in consideration for children favored the establishment in both Europe and America of a good number of companies specializing in dolls, toy trains and sundry other playthings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Objects which in most cases offered a reduced version of adult reality for use by children who, confronting that reality through play, could begin to prepare for the complicated life of the grownup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the most successful toy typologies was that which reproduced means of transport, whose furious pace of evolution in reality sometimes outstripped the limits of imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few years after its introduction, the automobile attracted the attention of the toy makers, and by 1898 a German manufacturer was mass-producing miniature cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But true success came later, when adult reality included enough automobiles to make toy versions of them desirable to children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The golden age of the toy car began with the Twenties. And along with it came, of course, the toy gasoline pump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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