Berkeley Super Cloud for Wakefield Competition - Flying Model Airplane Kit
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
Big 'new' model for 'New Wakefield Rules!' Rubber powered endurance model with 51 inch wingspan. Includes silk and standard covering material, special select balsa with die-cut parts, excellent, large milled-shape prop blank and folding prop hardware, celluloid window material, formed wire landing gear struts and highly detailed plans and instructions. The model has not been started. NOTE: missing one very tiny, simple balsa part. Easily made from scrap wood and a full size pattern is present. Otherwise inventoried with all other parts present and with all paperwork. Berkeley is a very famous manufacturer of flying model kits from the Golden Age of flying aviation, about 1932-1954. Founded in 1933 by William Effinger, the company was quite progressive in producing quality kits - it was likely the Berkeley 'Buccaneer' was the first gas powered model in kit form. In the later 1930s, Effinger acquired the services of a very talented Henry Struck. Struck went on to design numerous award-winning kits under the Berkeley name. Berkeley weathered the post WWII recession and emerged as a major kit producer in the late 1940 and 1950s. These were great years for Berkeley and they produced some incredible and large kits. The company went bankrupt in about 1960 however. Fox engines (Duke Fox) bought the company and released the kits alongside his own FOX models and engines. This arrangement did not last, and in the early 1960s the Berkeley name disappeared from hobby shop shelves.
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