Dinky Fans

In the years after World War 2, more and more trucks were used to col­lect full milk cans from farm­ers and trans­port them to dairies. Milk truck dri­vers did heavy…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Some­times a mod­el arrives on the work­bench and you instant­ly know: this one’s going to be a chal­lenge. That was exact­ly the case with the Dinky 33C/570 Sim­ca Miroiti­er Car­go.…

I was born in 1970 and for the first five years of my life, my par­ents and I lived on the fourth floor of an apart­ment build­ing in Fort Lee,…