Paul Woods

UK

T [IN A CIRCLE] TOYS CHECKLIST BY ARTO HAARALA

# No.	Name	Box marked	Box No.	Toy marked	Notes	Versions
301 A	Military Helicopter
355	Moonranger				Moon Ranger Mercury Mark IV on the toy	red / blue; yellow / red
355	UFO	T in a circle	355		redesigned & repackaged red /yellow version of Moonranger
355 A	Moonranger	T in a circle	355 A	355 A		blue / yellow
356	New Flying Saucer	T in a circle	356			box top / hinged lid box variations
357	Space Vehicle	T in a circle / T Toys Are Fun	357			3 box variations (2 with T in a circle logo)
360	Moon Bus	T in a circle	360		Regd. Design No. 930855
361	Mercedes-Benz 300 SL	T in a circle	361	T 361	Item no. on both license plates	red; blue
362	Air Plane	T in a circle	362
365	B.O.A.C. VC 10	T in a circle	365
366	Amphibious Car			T 366
367	Amphibious Car	T in a circle	367			red / white; blue / white
367 A	Amphibious Duck	T in a circle	367 A
371 A	Cabin Cruiser	T in a circle	317 A		repackaged Cragstan version exists
372	Electric Speedboat	T in a circle	372
375	Hydrofoil Boat	T in a circle	?
377	Dolphin Cruiser	T in a circle	377
379	Motor for Submarine Aircraft Carrier	?	?	T 379
394	Beat Guitar
410 B	Champion Racer	T in a circle	410 B	410	Different item number on toy
412	Computer Car Mercedes C 111	T in a circle	412		Window box
414 A	Volkswagen	T in a circle	414 A	T 414 A	Window box
422	Moon Prospector	T in a circle	422		Regd. Design No. 963703	Box versions w/ & w/o without pat. no.
424	Helicopter
425	Apollo 11
425	Apollo-X	T in a circle	425			2 box variations, plus German Saturn V box w/o T logo
426 W	Apollo 11	T in a circle	426 W	426	Attached to ceiling w/ cord	aka Apollo Moon Trek (HK); Moon Scout (Japan)
432	Two seater speedboat				Displayed on #433 Luxury Yacht side panel
433	Luxury Yacht				Speedoat w/ cabin, life-buoy at the back: Box panel gallery no.
435	Racing Speedboat	T Toys Are Fun	435	T 435		orange deck; blue deck
436	Bump'n Go Boat	T in a circle	436		Window box
437	Cruiser	T in a circle	437	T 437	Cabin Cruiser
437 A	Cruiser				Cruiser w/ cloth top
437 B	Cruiser				Cruiser w/o cabin
501	Jumbo Jet Boeing 747	T in a circle	501
503	Hi-Way Copter	T in a circle	503	T 503
508	GIANT Heavy Duty Helicopter		508
510	Space Shuttle	T in a circle	510
511	Children Educational Games / Children’s Driver		511		Box panel gallery no.
511 A	Children Educational Games / Space Traveling	T Toys Are Fun	511 A	T 511	Space Shuttle' on the toy; Box panel gallery no.
511 B	Children Educational Games / Sail N’Joy	T Toys Are Fun	511 B	T 511	‘Speedboat’ on the toy; Box panel gallery no.
514	Military Copter	T Tai Hing Tainovelty	514
515	Boeing E-3A AWACS	T Tai Hing Tainovelty	515	T 501	Different item number on toy
	** Tarheel Space Glider has number 350, which would seem to fit also into the series. However no Tai Hing toy is known by far.
	NO. NOT KNOWN
	502? Boeing 727
	Space Capsule**

THE SHUTTLE FERRY ROCKET STORY

 

Forty years ago, after many years of preliminary studies, men at Goodyear were busy designing and analyzing shuttle vehicle concepts for ferrying men and materials into and out of earth orbit and beyond on a regular and economical basis.

Using experimental data from Goddard's work and others gathered over the preceeding 40 years,

plu~ captured German high speed flight and rocket data, their studies had already reached the point where they were firmly convinced of the absolute necessity for such a reusable ferry vehicle operating to and from orbiting space stations.

So from about 1951 to 1954 they diligently pursued basic concepts and alternatives to focus on a design that would meet the main objectives. The final two years were aimed at the design and analysis of the orbital shuttle vehicle system shown here and the derivative orbital station concept illustrated.

A comprehensive technical paper covering the ferry rocket vehicle system portion was presented by Mr. Darrell Romick at the American Rocket Society (ARS) meeting in New York in 1954, and one covering the station was presented in Chicago in 1955. Both papers were presented as a complete system in Rome at the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) meeting in 1956. Another, including lunar landing, was presented in Barcelona in 1957. The concepts were shown on national television (Today show) in 1954. The accompanying illustrations are from the early 1954 and 1955 papers.

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The Goodyear officials called the first version of a complete operational orbital shuttle vehicle and orbital terminal the METEOR system (for Manned Earth Terminal evolving from Earth-Orbit-ferry Rockets).

A somewhat smaller version, with other variations and improvements, was called METEOR, Jr. It was first published in 1957. An improved HTOL (for horizontal takeoff and landing) version with more advanced tuiboramjet takeoff propulsion was published in 1959 (although it was withdrawn at the request of the Air Force).

Goodyear engineers continued a vigorous campaign with continuing analytical and promotional efforts, working with the Air Force and people at the Army Ballistics Missile Agency (ABMA --von Braun and crew at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala.) and later, when it was formed, with NASA --throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, since in those days the main proponents at all these agencies were part of a relatively small. group well acquainted with each other's work and ideas. However, at this point the "moon landing" Apollo program emerged to in effect sideline for a time all ideas for building a space capability via a space transportation system of the Meteor or Shuttle variety.

So it was not until the Apollo program was nearing its end that this philosophy and these ideas were again taken up and promoted,

resulting

in

the

launching

of

the

current

Shuttle

program

in

the

early 1970s,

following· several

years

of

final

definitive

studies.