Dinky Fans

In the Feb­ru­ary 1961 issue of Mec­ca­no Mag­a­zine, col­lec­tors were treat­ed to an excit­ing full-col­or announce­ment. A brand new Dinky Toys mod­el was hit­ting the shelves: No. 186, the Mer­cedes 220 SE.…

In 1987, a series of six Match­box Toys were issued in Dinky Toys blis­ter packs. There is an endur­ing myth among some col­lec­tors that Uni­ver­sal issued these blis­ter packs uni­lat­er­al­ly, in order to hijack…

The Mini Dinky range was intro­duced by Mec­ca­no (owned by Lines Broth­ers at the time) in 1967 or 1968 in 1:65 scale. They were made by sub­con­trac­tors in Hong Kong to com­pete…

Image: HobbyDB In ear­ly 1964, Spot-On were design­ing six new mod­els for their range, all based on con­tem­po­rary U.S. cars; unfor­tu­nate­ly at the same time, Tri-ang, the par­ent com­pa­ny of Spot-On, were…

In my opin­ion one of the nicest auto­mo­bile cast­ings that Mec­ca­no France pro­duced in the 1950’s was the 24 series Dinky Toys Chrysler New York­er con­vert­ible, based on the 1955 mod­el of that well…

The 1953 US Dinky Toys cat­a­log pic­tures a small red rac­ing car that many col­lec­tors might not have seen before. In fact there are oth­er cars in a lit­tle set. These were…

In 1964, British toy man­u­fac­tur­er Lines Bros was the out­right own­er of both British Mec­ca­no / Dinky Toys and Mec­ca­no France / Dinky Toys. Although there was lim­it­ed shar­ing of com­plet­ed toys and tool­ing, the two com­pa­nies…