Tricycle Photos:  1930-1950's

The 1930's really marked the first time that tricycle manufacturers offered frame designs that went beyond simplicity and functionality.  The Art Deco and Streamlined Modern design movements played a major role in tricycle design of the 1930's and 1940's.  The tricycles of this period that show streamlined designs to their frames and fenders are some of the most sought after tricycles today.  Not only did manufacturers use Streamlined Modern design, but some very famous designers of the time were responsible for the new look of tricycles in the 1930's era.

      Later in this period Machine Age and Space Age designs started to appear on tricycles.  The Machine Age brought about designs and materials that had previously been used very little.  The Space Age saw some manufacturers playing on the space-race craze with tricycles designed like rocket ships or models named with Space Age names.

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More Tricycle Photos:        Pre-1900      -           1900 - 1920's         -          1930 - 1950's           -          1960 - Current

Christmas 1951, father giving blindfolded boy his first tricycle.

~1930's tricycle with bell, ridden by child in cowboy costume.

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1930's pneumatic tire tricycle.

Large 1930's Taylor tricycle.

1930's streamlined Hedstrom minuteman tricycle.

1930's Junior tricycle with batwing type handlebars.

1950's Garton Delivery Cycle tricycle w/ attached wagon.

~1950's tricycle.

Photo of a little boy with tricycle, dated 1949.

Probably a 1950's Murray made tricycle.

Mid-century tricycle.

Odd mid-century tricycle w/ space ship type sidecar, probably European.

~1940's tricycle.

Late 1930's Junior Sky King tricycle.

~1930 tricycle type pedal car with disc wheels, probably foreign make.

Probably European tricycle, chain driven w/ pneumatic tires ~1940.

Looks to be a fendered Hedstrom Minuteman tricyle, late 1930's.

Roy Rogers on a Chuckwagon tricyle.

Mid-century tricycle and pedal tractor.

Possibly a 1950's Junior trike.

Any ideas?  Might be a Taylor?

Late 1940's..

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Looks to be 1940's Mercury chain driven tricycle.

Mid-1930's trike with solid disc wheels.

Early 1940's chain driven tricycle.

Junior tricycle, 1930's.

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Late 1930's Junior Sky King tricycle.

1940's Pal tricycle.

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1950's era photo of tricycle inventory.

1930-1940's Taylor tricycle.

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~1940's chain driven tricycle, probably European.

Large Junior Sky King tricycle.

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Chain driven Mercury tricycle ~1940's.

1930's Junior Sky Tot tricycle.

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~1950 Anothony Brother machine age aluminum tricycle.

Late 1930's streamlined Hedstrom Minuteman tricycle.

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Basic Junior tricycle circa 1950's.

Chain driven Mercury tricycle ~1940's.

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Looks to be a Junior Sky Line of some sort.

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Late 1930's Taylor tricycle.

Probably a Murray Mercury chain driven tricycle, ~1940's.

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Looks to be 1950's Murray.

Probably a 1930's Junior triycle.

Junior Sky Tot trike.

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1930's Junior tricycle.

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