De-Icer

De-Icer / IPD No. 653 / November 18, 1949 / 1 Player

Manufacturer:Williams Manufacturing Company (1944-1958) [Trade Name: Williams]

Date Of Manufacture:November 18, 1949

Model Number:33

Type:Electro-mechanical (EM) 

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Theme:Aviation - Travel - Women

Notable Features:Impulse flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Kick-out holes (5). Pressing either flipper button pulses both flippers simultaneously. Tilt penalty is ball in play, tilt is reset by ball passing through rollunder wire at bottom of playfield below flippers.

Design by:Harry Williams

Art by:George Molentin

Notes:The manufacturer’s original playfield drawing (not shown here) is dated 9/21/49 and has the signed initials HEW.

The name of this game comes from "Lil' De-Icer", one of many appellations given to pin-up artwork painted on the front of American aircraft during WWI and especially WWII, known collectively as "Nose Art".