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
- 6 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1934 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 881 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (11 fields)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Kickers ×7 used
- 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/881/image-27.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/881/image-1.jpg"] used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 7 used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB The slightly smaller Junior version, Bally's 1934 'Fleet Jr.', does not have the long metal rails on each side of the playfield found on the Senior version, and has two less trap holes along the 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." This is the first Bally game to have kickers. The first game from any manufacturer to have kickers is Earl & Koehler Mfg. Co.'s 1934 'Cannon Ball'. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 1-cent or 5-cent play. Kickers (7). There are twelve trap holes along the playfield perimeter, including the outhole. Two long metal rails on each side of playfield form lanes to expedite the ball from upper to lower playfield. 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 Senior game as 44 inches long by 22 inches wide. 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-sr used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Fleet Sr. used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog fleet-sr used