C. Carey Cloud created the
Metal Play Tray for
Cracker Jack
out of scrap metal.
Carey Cloud discovered that Ball Brothers,
maker of home canning lids, had tons of scrap two-inch metal discs. Buying
the scrap metal for only $25 per ton for his toys, he was able to make over
eighty million toys for
Cracker Jack.
When Ball Brothers discovered that he was making toys from the scrap metal, they raised the price to $125 per ton, and
that was the end of his metal toys.
Other toys he made from the scrap metal were...