Streamline Car

This is a typical Barclay slush cast toy.  More or less generic styling with soft detailing.  Given the year, you could claim that it represented a 1937-1938 DeSoto Airflow; the first true streamlined production car.  The grille is a bit overstated for that, and streamlining was a popular styling theme in the late Thirties so you can make up your own mind.

This is an excellent opportunity to show you the bottom of a slush cast Barclay.  The casting process largely prevented manufacturers from putting their name on a product, so you have to look for distinguishing marks to identify them.  Barclay's signature was a bridge across the bottom of the casting with two raised bars.

Slush casting was accomplished by pouring hot metal into a two-piece mold, waiting a few seconds for the outsides to cool, then flipping over the mold and pouring the molten metal out of the center.  Stamping a name into the underside of the casting would be difficult without cracking the still soft metal.

 

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