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1953 · Williams

Struggle Buggies

Night sky with white clouds, floodlight masts, row of conifer trees, green lawn, grandstand with striped tent roofs and oval race track.

Year
1953
Maker
Williams
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Score reels
Players
1

Made by

Design
Harry Mabs
Art
George Molentin

Vision analysis

On the backglass

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Struggle Buggies backglass

Backglass

  • yellow
  • blue
  • green
  • red

Fingerprint: struggle buggies, bright yellow score panel with large roller-drum numerals sits directly above huge white-red title arcing over cream oval race track filled with tiny dust-trailing numbered cars, crowd of cheering women and girls with raised arms at lower left, grandstand of tiny spectators under red-white striped tent roofs, cursive maker name in gold script above title, airbrushed midcentury style

Distinctive

A bright yellow score panel with big roller-drum numerals sits directly above a huge white-and-red title arcing over a cream-coloured oval race track filled with tiny dust-trailing numbered cars. A crowd of cheering women and girls with raised arms in the lower left, and a grandstand of tiny multicoloured spectators under red-and-white striped tent roofs, fill the rest of the scene. A cursive signature-style maker name in gold script sits just above the title. The whole thing is painted in a flat, saturated mid-century airbrushed cartoon style with heavy black outlines.

Setting

  • Night sky with white clouds
  • Floodlight masts
  • Row of conifer trees
  • Green lawn
  • Grandstand with striped tent roofs
  • Oval race track

Symbols

  • Roller-drum score numerals
  • Floodlight towers
  • Striped tent roofs
  • Dust puffs behind cars
  • Painted conifer trees
  • White-railed booth

Lettering

  • Large white sans-serif capitals with red inline and black drop shadow, stacked and arched, above a gold cursive signature-style maker script

Themes

  • Motor racing
  • Grass-track stock cars
  • Score reels
  • Grandstand crowd

Title on it

  • Struggle buggies

Text on it

  • SCORE
  • Struggle Buggies
  • Williams
  • 1
  • 12
  • 2
  • 3
  • 14
  • LA
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Blonde woman at lower left with arm raised high, orange-red top, laughing expression
Woman Dark-haired woman in green jumper, both arms flung upward cheering, mouth open
Child Young girl with blonde bob in a striped top, lower left, looking up
Woman Woman in orange shirt at far left edge with raised hand
Man Man's face and shoulders at very bottom left corner, partially cropped
Other Small running figure in green outfit on the grass oval at right, arms out
Vehicle Yellow open-top car numbered 1, driver visible
Vehicle Green sports car with driver in white helmet
Vehicle Red car numbered 12
Vehicle Yellow car numbered 2
Vehicle Black saloon car with white racing stripes
Vehicle Maroon car numbered 14, trailing dust
Full description

Cropped view of a painted racing-game backglass. A wide yellow rounded rectangle score panel runs across the upper third, bordered in red, with the word SCORE in spaced red capitals on a lighter yellow inset and a row of large roller-drum numerals beneath it showing digit faces and commas. Above and behind it is a dark blue night sky with fat white clouds, floodlight masts with rows of round lamps, and a row of dark green conifer trees. Across the middle sits the title in large white letters with red outline and black drop shadow, angled and stacked, with a cursive signature-style maker name above it. Below the title a cream and tan oval race track sweeps right, holding small numbered cars: a yellow open car marked 1, a green car with a driver, a red car marked 12, a yellow car marked 2, a black saloon car with white racing stripes, and a maroon car marked 14, all trailing white dust puffs. On the left a grandstand full of tiny colourful spectators sits behind red-and-white striped tent roofs and green lawn. Bottom left is a crowd of larger cheering figures: blonde and brunette women and girls, one in a green jumper with arms flung up, one in an orange top waving. Bottom right shows a white-railed structure and a small running figure in green on a grass oval.