5 NOVEMBER 1962

PM’s Toys of the Year

Toys have come a very long way since the early 1960s. This article described Pop Mech’s favourites, basing the selection on rugged testing by experts, and a ‘very energetic children’s panel’. The opening photo was somewhat creepy, showing a doll (containing a remote-control speaker) lying on its face, having survived a test fall ‘from several feet above the ground’.