Back Fleet Jr.

Sources

IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.

Sources agree (6 fields)

credit
Herbert G. Breitenstein — Design IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
technology_generation
electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
month
8 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
year
1934 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
player_count
1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
ipdb_id
880 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog

Single source (10 fields)

ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
IPDB Bally used
ipdb.corporate_entity_name
IPDB Bally Manufacturing Corporation used
ipdb.image_urls
IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-24.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-25.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-26.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-27.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-28.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-29.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-30.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-31.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-33.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-32.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/880/image-34.jpg"] used
ipdb.model_number
IPDB 7 used
ipdb.notes
IPDB 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." used
ipdb.notable_features
IPDB 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. used
corporate_entity
Flipcommons Catalog bally-manufacturing-corporation used
title
Flipcommons Catalog fleet-jr used
name
Flipcommons Catalog Fleet Jr. used
slug
Flipcommons Catalog fleet-jr used