The Smallest Dinky Toy

With a length of only 26.8 mm (1.05 in) for the trac­tor and 49 mm (1.9 in) for the trail­er, the Dublo Dinky 076 Lans­ing Bag­nall TD 200 trac­tor and trail­er is the small­est of all Dinky Toys.

The Dinky Dublo 076 Lansing Bagnall Tractor & Trailer.
Image: J K Diecast Models

The 076 was intro­duced in an adver­tise­ment on the back cov­er of the June 1960 issue of Mec­ca­no Mag­a­zine and sold for 2/9, inclu­sive of tax.

Dinky Dublo 076 Lansing Bagnall Tractor & Trailer on the back cover of Meccano Magazine, June 1960.

The 1960 edi­tion of the Dinky Toys cat­a­log also list­ed the Dublo Dinky 078 Lans­ing Bag­nall Trail­er, which was sold sep­a­rate­ly for 1/4. The only vari­a­tion of the mod­el is in its plas­tic tires, which were ini­tial­ly smooth and lat­er tread­ed.

The Dinky Dublo 076 Lansing Bagnall Tractor & Trailer in the Dinky Toys 1960 catalog.

The sep­a­rate­ly avail­able trail­er was offered in a Dinky trade box of six. There must have been a large amount of unsold stock of these trade box­es, because the trail­ers were avail­able until 1966, two years after pro­duc­tion of the 076 trac­tor and trail­er mod­el was dis­con­tin­ued. The 078 trade box is also the small­est trade box made by Dinky.

Dinky Dublo 078 Lansing Bagnall Trailer trade box.
Image: Dave Busfield

The Lansing Bagnall tractor at work at Basingstoke Station.

The diesel TODR trac­tor and the trail­er were made by Lans­ing Bag­nall of Bas­ingstoke, Hamp­shire, Eng­land, whose main prod­ucts were elec­tri­cal­ly pow­ered fork lift trucks. Lans­ing Bag­nall was acquired in 1989 by Linde Mate­r­i­al Han­dling (UK) Ltd., part of the KION group of Frank­furt am Main, a world leader in the man­u­fac­ture, sup­ply and sup­port of mate­r­i­al han­dling equip­ment.

The Lansing Bagnall tractor and trailer in the Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia.

You can read more about the Dinky Dublo 076 Lans­ing Bag­nall Trac­tor & Trail­er in The Fab­u­lous Dinky Toys Ency­clopae­dia.