255:. Newfooty can lay claim to being the original finger-flicking table soccer game which many players enjoy today. First manufactured in 1929 by Mr William (Will) Lane Keeling in Liverpool, the original game has recently reached more fame than in the past, due to the internet years and information sharing. The first manufactured figures were flat from card (cardboard, paper), followed later by the plastic (celluloid) version.
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Subbuteo Sports Games Ltd company. The Newfooty set contained 22 playing figures on a plastic base with lead at the bottom, goalkeepers, balls, wire-made goals, fixture card and rule book. Corner
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Limited company was taken over by its rival Subbuteo Sports Games Ltd from Tunbridge Wells in 1964 as Newfooty went into liquidation in 1961 however w kelling relaunched as Crestlin games & produced a 1963/64 catalogue then went bankrupt again at that point . All history details re
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Keeling (Born 20th May 1900, died 1976) in 1929, the year when the patent was officially registered at the patent office in Liverpool. The initial Newfooty Patent ran from 1929–1934, followed by a further five year period of 1934–1939.
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