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Making Tin Can Toys

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Army Truck Constructed Entirely from Used Tin Cans Frontispiece

I. Wounded Soldiers at Work 10

II. Army Truck and Tin Cans Used to Make It 22

III. The Raw Material from Which Many of the Toys Shown in This Book Were Made 23

IV. Scribing a Line Around a Can with the Dividers. Cutting Along the Joint to Open a Can. Cutting from Right to Left with the Straight Shears. Cutting to the Line, Right to Left 22

V. Author at Work 23

VI. The Tools Needed for Tin Can Toy Making 32

VII. Biscuit Cutters. Soldering 44

VIII. Cooky Cutter, Tray Candlestick and Ash Trays Made by the Author 84

IX. Steam Rollers 116

X. Dumping Truck and Chassis of Toy Auto Truck. 120

XI. Chassis of Toy Auto Truck and Dumping Truck. 121

XII. Wooden Roofing Folder 120

XIII. Oil Tank Truck and Toy Ford 152

XIV. Red Cross Ambulance 153

XV. Boats 170

XVI. A Simple Toy Locomotive, a Sand or Water Mill and the First Tin Can Toy 174

XVII. Steam Tractor and Gun 175

XVIII. Aeroplane Weathervanes 188

XIX. Lantern and Fighting Tank 192

XX. A Toy Tin Can Kitchen 196

XXI. A Doll’s Bathroom and a Tin Can Laundry 197

MAKING TIN CAN TOYS

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