ROBOT TORPEDO - MARUSAN - JAPAN
A red silver lithographed tinplate torpedo with a red robot driver. Friction inertia crank action. 29cm Circa 1950's. Crank operated torpedo with turning prop. Rubber nose. There should be a clear plastic canopy covering the robot. Marked 60 on the nose and Robot Torpedo on the sides. A black rubber plug forms a safety tip.
There is a version called Jet Torpedo with a human driver; it has the same box art depicting a robot pilot but the wording is different
Credit
Smith House Auctions