In the 1950’s as a young Dinky Toys col­lec­tor, I built my own list of what had been made in both the Eng­lish and French fac­to­ries. At that time, there were no books or mag­a­zines for diecast. I start­ed the list using Dinky cat­a­logs and Mec­ca­no mag­a­zines.

Ever since, this list has grown up until the inter­net start­ed, and I met dig­i­tal­ly dozens of col­lec­tors, at about the same time dig­i­tal cam­eras appeared mak­ing the price of pho­tos accept­able. I added large col­or pho­tos to my list which I made look like a web site with links to surf around, I was also able to trans­fer my typed list to my com­put­er and this slow­ly devel­oped into the present Fab­u­lous Dinky Toys Ency­clopae­dia which I sold on a CD to share my knowl­edge of Dinky Toys with oth­er col­lec­tors.

I did not know what I had put my foot into, but I dis­cov­ered hun­dreds of cast­ing and col­or vari­a­tions, mock-ups, pre-pro­duc­tion mod­els, all the dif­fer­ent types of box­es, and a load of infor­ma­tion about Dinky Toys.

Now, the Ency­clopae­dia con­tains almost every­thing about these mod­els. It is writ­ten in both Eng­lish and French and is an absolute must for any Dinky Toys col­lec­tor. It had grown so much from that orig­i­nal CD that I had to use DVDs, and lat­er dou­ble lay­er DVDs. When I reached the capac­i­ty of DVDs, I switched to large USB mem­o­ry sticks; this is how the Ency­clopae­dia is now dis­trib­uted. Today it con­tains more than 3300 pages and more than 12000 large col­or pho­tos.

For infor­ma­tion and orders, please email:

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Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia pages about the Dinky 110 Aston Martin DB 5

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