Winding Unit for Horse Model
South Australian Maritime Museum
Port Adelaide, Australia
Left side view of a wooden wheeled model of a galloping race horse with jockey and string pulley. This piece is a component of the famous horse races deck game, one of the many deckside 'sports' organised by the Adelaide Steamship Company for their passengers.
It is made up of a welded metal frame around a bulbous wooden drum reel, tapering to an adjustable wooden foot at one end. Shaped wooden handle grip above drum, winding handle (wooden) extending from drum. Both the foot and reel are painted red, the metal frame silver, and both hand grips are unpainted. Twine on the drum is looped through a metal hook on a separate mobile wooden horse, connected back to an eyelet above the wooden foot. The winder then pulls the model along.
- Title: Winding Unit for Horse Model
- Provenance: This game was used aboard Adelaide Steamship Company vessels on the famous Gulf Trip around South Australia's gulf waters during period 1930s-1950s.The winder was used to reel in wooden horses during deck races, a popular entertainment provided by the Adelaide Steamship Company on its Gulf Trips around South Australian waters. The Gulf Trip was a fixture of South Australian tourism during the first half of the twentieth century and carried generations of honeymooners, holiday makers and tourists around the Spencer Gulf over six days for only £6.
- Subject Keywords: Sport, deck games
- Rights: History Trust of South Australia, CC-0, photographer: Rachel Harris, Bit Scribbly Design
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