ALPHADROME ROBOT AND SPACE TOY DATABASE

Tin Robots and Space Toys
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SONICON ROCKET - MASUDAYATin battery op Circa 1961. Remote control rocket advances as antenna turns. Direction controlled by whistle. Complete with two boxed whistles and spare antenna. MT. Another litho version of this rocket exists.

The mechanism works as follows: an air chamber with an opening and a diaphram above the opening with a conductor across two contacts. When the whistle blows the air in the chamber resonates causing the diaphram to vibrate and open the connection between the contacts which switches a relay causing the wheel assembly to spin in circles until the whistle stops and the ship heads off in whatever new direction the wheels are heading.
       
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