TOPIC: Toy Outboard Help

Hi All, I recently found this toy outboard motor. It's made out of heavy metal and it appears to be complete. It's marked "Made in Occupied Japan" on the bottom of the upper housing that appears to be stamped aluminum. Does anyone know anything about this thing, or know where I can find out about it?
Thanks, Bill

No info, but boy, is it cute!!!!!!!!

1st let me wipe the druel off the my keyboard. These guys might be able to help. www.alterscale.com/ Their Toy History pic page only goes back to 1952. www.alterscale.com/ko_identify.html The toy outboards appeal to different collectors and some can draw big bank. "Made in Occupied Japan" means it was made just after WWII, I forget how long it was used, but that opens up to even another group of collectors. Nice score dude!!!

Way cool, I want one.

i would almost trade my toy tractor collection to acguire a group of those. my favorite is the 33hp scott attwater. thanks for providing the link. ron

That motor is one of the generic toy outboard made by International Model Products (IMP) in the late 1940s into the 1950s. They were rebadged for sale by several companies and sold as DC Motor, K&O Royal Blue Speedmaster, and IMP. The identification would have been on the stamped steel cowling. Yours is an earlier one with the jumper wires from the battery terminals on the front to the brush terminals on the underside of the lower pan. Later ones just had one set of exposed terminals.

Not worth a whole lot - the big money ones are the scale looking K&Os branded for Evinrude, Johnson, Mercury, Scott Atwater, Gale Buccaneer and Oliver.

Check out: www.toyoutboardmotors.com

- Scott

Japan was occupied from 1945 to 1951, so that's the window of manufacturing. I used to collect old cigarette lighters and once came across one made out of a bullet casing that had the same imprint on the bottom.