It's offered to your attention the 19" long (1:10 scale) model of the British-Russian armoured car "Austin Putilovets" what became well known as a rostrum for Vladimir Lenin at the Finland station in Petrograd at the meeting on April 16th, 1917, just upon Lenin's return to Russia after his long exile. This armoured car is the famous symbolism of the "bolsheviks" revolution in the former USSR countries, and even abroad. This particular scale model has been presented in 1977 to Russian DOSAAF (Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Army, Air Force and Navy) by Defence Association of Hungary as a remembrance of Lenin's trip to Hungary and his meetings with Bela Kun. The model is standing on the wooden pedestal and covered by plexiglass. The metal plate on the top of the wooden pedestal shows the map of Hungary with the places where Lenin travelled. You can see the metal signs of DOSAAF and the Defence Association of Hungary beside this plate. The plate on its front is devoted to 50th Congress of the DOSAAF in 1977. There is music player inside the wooden pedestal, you can see the controls on the photos below (play, stop, record, forward and rewind buttons). The front lights of the model should shine (there are some wires visible under the hood). The model's wooden pedestal has electric plug for Russian electric standard socket (with power supply of 220V, 50Hz). Supposely the player would play a speech of Lenin or International song. It has not been tested electricaly.

Scale - 1:10.

Model length - about 19 inches (49 cm).

Model material - plywood of a very good quality was used for the body (the first imagination was until I opened the hood: it has been made of metal). Probably metal and plastic is also used for some parts.

Condition - used. The model itself is like new but the pedestal looks a little worn. The work of the car front lights and music player has not been tested.