Post by af3020 on Nov 18, 2024 22:43:25 GMT
I'm pretty sure the prewar American Flyer Water Tank wasn't a Bing product.
A check of all of the catalogs I have on record indicates the first offering of a water tower by American Flyer was the #2020 above which first appeared in the 1922 Flyer catalog. By that time Flyer was making all of its own accessories.
It is obvious there are a lot of similarities and, of course, there is always the possibility that Flyer copied much of the Bing pattern but the two towers exhibit a number of differences. The Bing water spout is hinged from the bottom and swings out, there is a difference in height of the tower bases and water tanks, the embossed bands around the tanks are of different width and location and the roof tops differ in shape.
A check of all of the catalogs I have on record indicates the first offering of a water tower by American Flyer was the #2020 above which first appeared in the 1922 Flyer catalog. By that time Flyer was making all of its own accessories.
It is obvious there are a lot of similarities and, of course, there is always the possibility that Flyer copied much of the Bing pattern but the two towers exhibit a number of differences. The Bing water spout is hinged from the bottom and swings out, there is a difference in height of the tower bases and water tanks, the embossed bands around the tanks are of different width and location and the roof tops differ in shape.
