Wooden truck

According to historians, the oldest wheeled toy was discovered in the tomb of a child in Turkey which dates back more than 5000 years. The wooden truck is modern toy which appeared in the first quarter of the 20th century, following the rise of the automobile industry at the end of the 19th century. This wood is made of planks of pine and decorated like real, work trucks. A wooden box could be attached (a fruit box or similar) to the wooden platform which has two parallel axles for the four wooden wheels, or, sometimes, buttons. At the front is the cabin.

During the 1950s the first (plastic) clockwork cars appeared. Later, in the 1980s, friction drive vehicles appeared whose complex mechanisms allow autonomous movement. And with the change of millennium, the advent of rechargeable battery-powered cars began.

This evolution shows how we have advanced towards a less sustainable kind of toy due to the materials used, but also toys which are less appreciated by their owners, as we have moved from hand-crafted non-commercial toys with the values attached to them, to large-scale manufacture toys which are «throwaway».