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Dinky Toys 36 Series
The Dinky Toys 36 series of motorcars was introduced in 1937 and was the direct successor of the 24 series introduced in 1934. Although very similar in appearance, the 36 series featured…
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Dinky Supertoys 562 Dumper Truck versions (1948–1965)
In this article, I’ll show the three versions of the Dinky Supertoys 562 Muir-Hill Dumper Truck in my collection. Among them is the British No. 562 that was imported into…
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Dinky Panhard Articulated Trucks
Although the English Meccano factory quickly got to work and introduced larger scale commercial vehicles in 1947 with the Foden and Guy trucks, it took the Dinky Toys French factory a lot longer to…
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Hornby Modelled Miniatures
Dinky Toys have been around since 1934 and have amazed boys of pre-war Britain and other countries to which they were exported. During the 1940s and 1950s they filled the…
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Refurbishing the Dinky 104 Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle
My Dinky 104 Spectrum Pursuit vehicle, or SPV, was purchased for me by my mom around 1975 from either Bloomingdale’s in Hackensack, NJ, which had a lovely toy department, or…
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Dinky Supertoys 930 Bedford Pallet-Jekta Van
Meccano Liverpool had a good relationship with the Bedford truck company, and many Bedford models were reproduced by Meccano. The January 1960 issue of Meccano Magazine contained an advertisement for…
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Meccano Memories
In 1961, I joined Meccano Ltd. as an Apprentice Toolmaker based at their factory in Hanson Road, Aintree, Liverpool. This factory had considerable molding facilities for the production of Bayko…
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Dinky Supertoys Foden Tankers
This article covers the history of the Dinky Supertoys Foden tankers which were released in four versions. The Dinky Supertoys fuel tankers that appeared later with beautiful period advertising of…