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Service Station
Transportation
Construction
Marx believed that children
enjoyed playing with toys that they would see in real life; his toys
stopped nothing short of anything and everything children might see from
day to day!!!
 From
dump trucks to garbage trucks, road graders to telephone trucks, tractor
trailers to car haulers, army trucks to fire engines, if it was out
there and driving on the road, Marx created a toy to its liking.
These toys were known as the Marx "PT" Push
Toys...toys that did not have any wind-up or mechanical mechanism, but
would be pushed for play value. The majority of these pieces were
produced in the Glen Dale factory starting in early 1930's through the
1970's.
 It
has been reported that in 1946, the Glen Dale factory automatic paint
line dipped and baked approximately 3.5 million toys per month.
In addition to the Marx LUMAR decals, Marx licensed
brand names so that children and adults alike could associate with the
toys produced.
Oklahoma Tire & Supply
Bud Bowman's Milk Express
 Marx produced a wide variety of service
stations in all forms from single levels to three level car garages, service
stations with elevators, and service stations with car washes. Throughout
service station production, it could be estimated that over 100
variations of service stations were produced.
Other playsets included warehouses and truck terminals in which playsets
filled with trucks and accessories often converted in to the buildings.
 From
1964 to 1971, Marx produced the promotional vehicles for the Hess Oil
Company. The photo below shows the 1964/5 Mack B-61 tanker truck
(the first truck), the 1967 "Red Velvet" Hess truck, and the 1970/1 Hess
Fire Truck.
In addition to the larger construction related metal pieces, Marx also
produced a construction playset. The playset included a variety of
hard plastic construction related vehicles and equipment, a tin
building, and construction figures to bring the set to life.
In a
sandbox, a construction playset could open the imagination of
any child!
And remember, not all transportation toys were designed for the ground
travel, Marx also produced a few airplanes!!!
The Official
Marx Toy Museum displays transportation toys from the 1930's thru the
1970's
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