Making Tin Can Toys

by Edward Thatcher

Army truck shown in frontispiece assembled from group of cans shown below

Tin cans used to make the army truck shown in frontispiece

PLATE III

Courtesy Pictorial Review

The raw material from which many of the toys shown in this book were made

PLATE IV

a, scribing a line around a can with the dividers. b, cutting along the joint to open a can. c, cutting from right to left with the straight shears to remove surplus tin from can before cutting to line. d, cutting to the line right to left

PLATE V