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If in the 1950s. bike for the majority of Soviet children was an accomplishment, in the 1960s in the Soviet Union, many kids have traveled from house to house on their personal vehicles. Foot course. Perhaps it was the main dream of all the boys who all knew of their existence ...
The Soviet Union did not depart from the trends of world fashion. Back in the 30s were born child car prototypes which then went into series.



Interestingly, over time, it transformed only design. A technical toys did not undergo major changes. For half a century remained the design: a bearing body, pedal drive reciprocating type axle suspension ...



On this platform, Soviet designers put on a variety of body. After the war, the right honorable way to advertise their products got the Moscow plant of small cars.



Since the 60s, when the company was renamed AZLK here operated a separate conveyor line, which went miniature copies of "Muscovites».



These toys cost about 30 rubles (polzarplaty young engineer). How many of them were released in half a century - no one knows. We only know that in the USSR pedal cars were always in short supply. In the friendly socialist countries they are sold freely.



With the beginning of perestroika in the children's conveyor AZLK stopped. Domestic velokarchiki disappeared from the shelves, and with the fall of the Iron Curtain quickly took their place foreign.



Kids pedal car "Moskvich", produced in the Soviet Union at the plant AZLK, roughly from 1969 to 1995. During this time, several generations of these remarkable machines.



Excellent workmanship, a lot of iron, this suspension, lights, alarm, all this made the children's car very similar to these "Muscovites". For the majority of Soviet children pedal Moskvich was a dream ...











































Pedal Rainbow fantastic design machine, also received a prize at one of the exhibitions at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements. CHKPZ releases - Chelyabinsk Forge-and-Press Plant.







Pedal GPL. This product is one of the companies Orsk. GPL is the river. At the confluence of the Ori in Ural Orsk is.
It is interesting that such cars as the GPL or Orenburzhets produced only in the same city and the same spread, passing the newsletter into other regions of our vast country.

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The younger brother was a three-wheeled pedal cars pedal design, depicting a gig in it and pulled by a racehorse.



Two wheels were part of the gig (housed in the same seat jockey), and the third (front) wheel was somewhere under the body of a horse, pressed tin.



With the help of cunning tire levers was connected with horse legs slidably attached to the body, and when moving the machine it seemed that even the horse gallops. But this design is much rarer than the standard pedal cars.





Sports Chain. Sports release Belarusian colleagues, and to do it so far. And it is very pleasing, as this machine is somewhat similar to our real cars from childhood, not plastic pedal crafts, which are now overwhelmed with all the toy department.





Source: ussrlife.blogspot.ru