- credit
- Herbert G. Breitenstein — Design
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 880
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- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- ipdb.model_number
- 7
- ipdb.notable_features
- 1-cent or 5-cent play. There are ten trap holes along the playfield perimeter, including the outhole. Seven playfield cannons "fire" the pinball upwards on the playfield. The largest cannon is a tube and does not fire the ball but instead delivers a ball entering the top to the high-scoring "Shell Hole" at playfield bottom.
The manufacturer advertised this Junior game in two different sizes, as 42 inches long by 19 inches wide, and as 38 inches long by 18 inches wide. However, one of the Junior games pictured here was measured by its owner at 39 inches by 17 inches, and 13 inches high at the taller end (excluding legs).
Patent D93,536 [DESIGN FOR A GAME APPARATUS] Filed July 11, 1934. Granted on Oct 9, 1934 to Herbert G. Breitenstein, assignor to Raymond T. Moloney.
Patent 2,094,634 [GAME APPARATUS] Filed August 1, 1934. Granted Oct 5, 1937 to Herbert G. Breitenstein, assignor to Raymond T. Moloney.
- ipdb.notes
- The slightly larger Senior version, Bally's 1934 'Fleet Sr.', has two lanes formed by long metal rails on each side of the playfield that the Junior version does not have, and has two additional trap holes.
Interestingly, the book Pinball Portfolio shows an ad placed by a UK distributor with a picture of a game with no long metal rails, identified as 42 inches by 19 inches, yet having twelve trap holes along its playfield perimeter.
In a Billboard article dated 08-31-1940 page 122, Bally President Ray Moloney reflected on the making of this game: "We all remember how in 1934, during the hottest summer in years, we built 500 Fleets a day for three weeks in a row."
- month
- 8
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- year
- 1934