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Re: The History of LEGO Plates - Part 1.
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Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:08:06 GMT
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Huw Millington wrote:
> Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message
> news:378CB428.51D8C52C@umich.edu...
> > Since several of you have expressed enjoyment with my blathering about
> > Lego history, I thought I would give you a 1956-65 history on the
> > origins of Lego plates.
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> > If anyone has info that contradicts me, please feel free and let me
> > know.
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> The blueprints I have pictures of at:
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> http://194.131.104.225/~huw/lego/reference/blueprints/index.html
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> have been dated as 1965 by Phil Trivass. On at least one of them:
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> http://194.131.104.225/~huw/lego/reference/blueprints/blueprint3-01.jpg
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> plates are referred to as 'slimbricks', and this particular one says 'New
> slimbricks in black'. Presumably this is referring to new in black, rather
> than new slimbricks.
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> Huw
Very interesting. This London Bus has 29 white windows (18 - 1x4x2, 7 -
1x3x2, and 4 - 1x2x2) versus the later (1975) London bus we are all familiar
with which had 22 red windows (10 -1x4x2, 11 - 1x3x2 and 1 - 1x2x2) as well as
2 - 1x1x1 white windows.
When I check out the 1963 German catalog, it already shows the "slimbricks" in
black (as well as the other colors). Ditto for the 1963 US (Samsonite)
catalog, which also had these in black. Maybe in these 1965 blueprints the
word NEW really means "relatively new", and that can mean all colors as well.
Very Interesting. Thanks Huw!
Gary Istok
P.S. It is interesting to see the nomenclature in use at the time. The
inside corner sloped bricks are known here as "valley bricks", and the outside
corner sloped bricks are known as simply "corner bricks".
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