Shite in Miniature II

[flat4alfa]

In contrast to the Corgi Toys catalogue for 1958 (as Dinky Toys were well established by that time), this is the Dinky France 1958 catalogue

[ I didn't scan them, s'il te plait ne me blâme pas ! ]

[flat4alfa]

The Dinky Toys Australia 1958 catalogue

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Dinky Toys France 1939

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Dinky Toys France 1949.

[bramz7]

A brief bit of history...

 

Yes, that is me. 

I still have both models mentioned! 

[DoctorRetro]

Poundland visit today. 

Cheeky fuckers have the hot wheels at 1.50,didn't realise until at the checkout 

I've also got a 'job lot' of 130 cars coming within the next week. 30 quid posted for 130 cars was a gamble, especially as the pics were crap and I have no idea what's coming. Even if only half of them are decent, it's worth it, isn't it? 

[bunglebus]

6 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

 

The final Corgi fahrt Drag-Rennen landed here today - the Swedish Jet Dragster

 

20200519_140057 by RS, on Flickr

 

Now all I have to do is squeeze it in here somewhere

 

20200518_113413 by RS, on Flickr

 

A few other bits and bobs;

 

Matchbox describe this as a Dodge Monaco Estate (rather than station wagon)

 

20200519_140148 by RS, on Flickr

 

Majorette Maharadja uses the Rollamatics type system, think that's meant to be a rotating umbrella in the back

 

20200519_140431 by RS, on Flickr

20200519_140427 by RS, on Flickr

 

Same make truck is in nice shape but missing...something?

 

20200519_140552 by RS, on Flickr

20200519_140559 by RS, on Flickr

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Got this really clean Whizzwheels bug too

 

20200519_140514 by RS, on Flickr

[bunglebus]

6 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Dinky Toys France 1939

 

6 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Dinky Toys France 1949.

 

I had no idea there were even toy catalogues published that long ago

 

2 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

Poundland visit today. 

Cheeky fuckers have the hot wheels at 1.50,didn't realise until at the checkout 

I've also got a 'job lot' of 130 cars coming within the next week. 30 quid posted for 130 cars was a gamble, especially as the pics were crap and I have no idea what's coming. Even if only half of them are decent, it's worth it, isn't it? 

1 -robbing b*stards!

2 - sounds good. I took a chance on a £30 job lot a while back and it had some great stuff in it.

[bunglebus]

Finished two cars today. I'll post the other one tomorrow once I've got sunlight to take the pics, for now here's the '57 Buick I got from @C1am

 

20200519_101710 by RS, on Flickr

20200519_101657 by RS, on Flickr

20200519_101608 by RS, on Flickr

 

You may be able to make out the hole in the bonnet casting - it was also out of shape, I ended up removing it to straighten and fill it, detailed the engine - and it still doesn't open very far, so you'll have to take my word for it!

 

2020-05-18_05-59-06 by RS, on Flickr

[Spottedlaurel]

To all those who recently purchased rubbish from me, parcels went off in today's post so hopefully you'll see them by the weekend.

[quicksilver]

On 5/18/2020 at 3:38 PM, Datsuncog said:

Kicking off - Matchbox Ford Transit Mk3.

Now, I've picked up two of these from the tat stall, but I only really need one.

So ONE of these two is up for grabs.

The first issue 'Motorsport' version has been messily opened, but the model's still minty.

The Australia Post van is still sealed.

You can choose whichever one you fancy, and then I'll keep the other.

£2 for your choice of Transit!

***Motorsport van SOLD!!!***

 

Corgi Trackside 00 model of a Bedford RLHZ 'Green Goddess' Mobile Pump.

Probably should have taken this one out of the box to photograph - not sure why I didn't.

All in good nick; £3 takes this one.

 

More 1/72 railway scale - a Ford D-series box van, by Base Toys.

Any use as a Code 3 to anyone? £3, again.

 

Getting even smaller now, we're on to 1/87 - US railway scale?

Quite a nicely detailed International tipper, anyways.

And another, earlier International tractor unit.

£2 each on these.

 

Staying with Hongwell Cararama, but moving back up to 1/72 scale: Mercedes 190 SL roadster.

£1 on this one - probably what I paid for it back in 2004.

And a more modern Germanic equivalent... BMW Z8.

Again, I'll do this one for £1.

Mega fun ahoy with these Hongwell playsets:

Mercedes to the rescue with this Vito, ML and Actros fire tender. Plus bonus giants.

Tesco Transporter with Toyota Rav4, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo, BMW E36 and Saab 9-3 on board:

...and lastly a mega-sign pack with car lift, transporter, Merc E-class estate; Merc CLK; Chevy Caprice; and Merc A-class in kiddywink-friendly colours; and Saab 9-5 and BMW X5 in less eye-popping hues.

Plus more giants, obvs.

£5 each on these, and this truly is the last call - I'm planning on hauling my assorted boxes of diecast down over the bank holiday weekend, and folding the remaining unsold stuff back into the general collection again, as I reckon I've cleared enough space now to make that possible.

Thanks for your indulgence, once again!

D-series and Merc rescue set for me, pleaseandthankyou

[Spottedlaurel]

21 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Just had a look, yes it's a rarity as I suspected.  It's all there but as it was so rough, it's already in the stripping pot and and will get painted 

Looked it up and these were these colour schemes

I've had mine for about 40 years, I think I bought it on a school trip to Le Treport........

Looks like I've lost a light off the roof at some point. Better sack it off and trade up to the '79 Gran Fury instead.

[Christine]

Queueing up in Tesco tonight , i had to buy strategically placed toys?

[flat4alfa]

On 5/16/2020 at 10:11 AM, flat4alfa said:

Yes Dream Car - yet to find one in any shop myself

Good short documentary here

 

Spotted a counterfeit friction-driven 'Dream Car' made by TAT (Telsalda) Hong Kong 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/telsalda-tat-77-FRICTION-MOTOR-ENGINE-SOUND-OPEN-TOP-CAR-260-PLASTIC/293312619764

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I had no idea there were even toy catalogues published that long ago

1934 Meccano 'Dinky Toys', France.  First 'catalogue' advert

[flat4alfa]

1934 Meccano 'Dinky Toys' catalogue, Britain.  First 'catalogue' page from Meccano Magazine

[flat4alfa]

1936 Meccano Dinky Toys advert France

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1951 Dinky Toys catalogue France, first with photographs not drawings.  

Page 5 is DatsunCog's back garden.

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1961 Dinky Toys pamphlets, Russia

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Now all I have to do is squeeze it in here somewhere

Sell one AMX, sorted.

Oh, but where is next week's Matchbox SpeedKings Bazooka going to go?  

[bunglebus]

6 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Sell one AMX, sorted.

Oh, but where is next week's Matchbox SpeedKings Bazooka going to go?  

That Bazooka is proving to be a bit of a unicorn, fingers crossed one crosses my path eventually 

[Remspoor]

21 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Does it annoy anyone else that Corgi used the S1 truck cab on their S2a right up until the end in 1976 ? Even as a  kid it used to confuse me , Was it supposed to be a 1 or 2 ? One of the reasons that I hated my Daktari set, the other being, of course was that the only Regularly appearing Land Rover in Daktari was the District Commissioner’s weird open top 107” personnel carrier thing- presumably there weren’t many Land Rovers in 1960’s California.

Dinky managed the right roof.

Maybe this helps to clarify the 'Rover colours and models.

https://sites.google.com/view/corgitoys/home/farming/land-rovers?authuser=0

Plus there was a Longleat version. That I did not know about.

https://sites.google.com/view/corgitoys/home/tv-film/longleat?authuser=0

 

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

44 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Maybe this helps to clarify the 'Rover colours and models.

https://sites.google.com/view/corgitoys/home/farming/land-rovers?authuser=0

Plus there was a Longleat version. That I did not know about.

https://sites.google.com/view/corgitoys/home/tv-film/longleat?authuser=0

 

 

Very interesting, but still doesn’t explain why they put the wrong roof on the S2. Was it a casting issue? Was the proper curved smooth cab too difficult to make? 

The Corgi Juniors Land Rover went halfway there with more of a curve to the hard top but still had 3 ribs for some inexplicable reason.

Someone at Corgi realised in time for the breakdown version and it had the correct roof and curved window shape in the corner of the cab.

As I said Dinky managed it and of course Britain’s , who were probably the most prolific Land Rover modellers at the time

[NorfolkNWeigh]

10 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

1951 Dinky Toys catalogue France, first with photographs not drawings.  

Page 5 is DatsunCog's back garden.

Surprised to see an Auto Union as one of only 5 cars on offer.  Would many French parents be buying that symbol of German dominance only 5 or 6 years after liberation ?

[flat4alfa]

6 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Surprised to see an Auto Union as one of only 5 cars on offer.  Would many French parents be buying that symbol of German dominance only 5 or 6 years after liberation ?

It's a carry-over casting from the 1939 pamphlet/catalogue where Tazio Nuvolari is mentioned, although he never drove the streamlined body type the model depicted (AFAIK)

Interesting to note the specific mention of Donnington Hall and Nuvolari, but not the Mercedes team championship winning drivers (all Germans) by name.  Maybe there was something in the air...  1938 Championship final standings:

The 1938 Donnington GP was, as stated, won by Nuvolari.  So somebody at Dinky FR headquarters favoured the Italian!  Perhaps the reissue was to capitalise on Nuvolari's post-war resurgence with Maserati?  It was also well known that he was in poor health (one race he steered with one hand while holding a blood-stained handkerchief over his mouth) and he was dead within a year of the 1951 catalogue.

The 1939 pamphlet/catalogue was issued March 1939, 16 months before France surrendered and Gen. Philippe Petain declared that Germany and France had a common goal, “the defeat of England.” The Git.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

That reminds me of that picture of Richard Seaman giving an embarrassed , half hearted Nazi salute after winning the 1938 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring . I think he was killed a matter of weeks before we declared war on Germany. It’s strange to think racing was still going on that close to war. Seaman was killed in Belgium I think, could even have been France.

[Richard_FM]

This page has been interesting, I recognise some of the 1970-80s models.

The overseas Dinky catalogues are interesting, especially as the only British vehicle is a Vickers Viscount, not even a Jaguar in spite of their 5 Le Mans wins in the 1950s?!

[flat4alfa]

4 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I think he was killed a matter of weeks before we declared war on Germany. It’s strange to think racing was still going on that close to war. Seaman was killed in Belgium I think, could even have been France.

Yes, at Spa, 25 June 1939 in heavy rain and died that night from his burns.  The Führer sent a very large wreath to his funeral.  Göring & Von Ribbentrop were considered friends.

At the German GP he did give the Nazi salute. Not once, but twice.   German fluent, he married the daughter of the Head of BMW in '38,   He lived in Bavaria and had done so since '37.   In a letter to his mother he called Hitler "electrifying".

[Skizzer]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Yes, at Spa, 25 June 1939 in heavy rain and died that night from his burns.  The Führer sent a very large wreath to his funeral.  Göring & Von Ribbentrop were considered friends.

At the German GP he did give the Nazi salute. Not once, but twice.   German fluent, he married the daughter of the Head of BMW in '38,   He lived in Bavaria and had done so since '37.   In a letter to his mother he called Hitler "electrifying".

Dick Seaman’s story is a very interesting one.  It’s entirely possible he was just naive rather than a particularly enthusiastic Nazi.  I dare say Hitler was ‘electrifying’ to meet, since he must have been an extraordinarily charismatic leader. Which obviously isn’t AT ALL to say that’s a good thing: cults of personality almost never are.

That said, there is interesting evidence that Seaman was involved in gun running to the fascists in the Spanish Civil War.  There was a lot of pre-war sympathy for the fascist movement amongst the British (and European) aristocracy, probably as a bulwark against communism, which at that time was seen as worse given events in Russia.

Seaman’s mother was no great fan of his marrying Erica Popp, incidentally. If I recall she cut him off financially.

 

Whoa, thread drift.

 

A bit closer to on-topic, I find it hard to imagine (but CBA to check) that Auto Union would have run streamliners at the twisty little Donington circuit, as alleged by Dinky — they were more for the banked ovals at Monza and the Avusring, and speed records on straight sections of Autobahn.

Donington was all about slotting it under a tiny stone hump-backed bridge without crashing, not V-max.

[stuboy]

Picked up in tesco