Toy cars and trucks

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 161. Chapters: Radio-controlled car, Model car, Matchbox, Corgi Toys, Hot Wheels, Dinky Toys, Transformers: Alternators, List of M.A.S.K. toys & characters, List of model car brands, Tomica, Hornby Railways, Tamiya Corporation, Kyosho, Derby H:O Racing Club, XMODS, Mini-Z, Associated RC10, Nylint, Majorette, Die-cast toy, Pinewood derby, Hubley Manufacturing Company, Mini 4WD, Solido, Tamiya Radio Controlled Nitro Vehicles, PlasmaCar, Husky Toys, Brooklin Models, Micro Machines, Mad Tracks, Mikro'67, Choro-Q, Siku Toys, Academy Plastic Model, Playart, Lone Star Toys, Lesney Products, Corgi Classics, 1:64 scale, Norev, Pocher, Bburago, Eligor Models, Maisto, Radio-controlled drifting, NZG Models, Stompers, Trax Models, Motorific, Aoyagi Metals Company, Spot-On, Q-steer, Conrad Models, Sturdi-Bilt, Aurora Plastics Corporation, TrueScale Miniatures, Cursor Models, Schabak Modell, Tonka, Diecast Car Collectors Zone, ZipZaps, Vitesse Models, Stahlberg Models, Johnny Lightning, Accurate Miniatures, Exclusive First Editions, Buddy L, 1:18 scale diecast replica, Cozy Coupe, Record Breakers: World of Speed, Ertl Company, Crusader 101, Funmate, Jada Toys, Model commercial vehicle, All Metal Products Company, Power Wheels, Mebetoys, Catterline Cartie Challenge, Tether car, Darda, Lledo, Minichamps, Megatech International, 1:24 scale, Pullback motor, Team Losi Mini-T, 1:32 scale, Bobby-Car, Mini Lindy, Crescent Toys, 1:43 scale, Speedeez, TootsieToy, Trofeu, Benbros, Welly, 1:50 scale, Things on Wheels, Woodcar Independent Racing League, 1:12 scale, Model construction vehicle, Tekno, Dulcop, Great American Dream Machines, US-1 Trucks, Firestorm 10t, Friction motors, American Juvenile Electric, Yat Ming, Muky, Road Champions. Excerpt: Corgi Toys (trademark) is the name of a range of die-cast toy vehicles produced by Mettoy Playcraft Ltd. in the United Kingdom. The Mettoy company was founded in 1933 by German émigré Philip Ullmann in Northampton, England, where he was later joined by South African-born German Arthur Katz who had previously worked for Ulmann at his toy company Tipp and Co of Nuremberg. They decided to market a range of toy vehicles as competition to Meccano's Dinky Toys model vehicles which had dominated the British market for many years. Corgi Toys were introduced in the UK in July 1956 and were manufactured in Swansea, Wales, for twenty seven years before the company went into liquidation. The range was exported worldwide and sold in large numbers. Some of the best known and most popular models were of cars made famous in film and television such as the Batmobile, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 - which remains the largest selling toy car ever produced. Although the largest single vehicle type featured in the Corgi Toys range were models of cars from manufacturers around the world, this article sub-divides vehicles into genres, wherever possible, to allow a more detailed look at the variety of models produced by the company. 204 Rover 90 & 205 Riley PathfinderMettoy became established in Northampton and within six years of the company's founding, the Northampton factory had 600 employees. A production plant was built at Fforestfach in Swansea to manufacture the new range of Corgi Toys providing many new jobs in an area of high unemployment following the scaling down of local coal mining operations. 305 Triumph TR3AThe name 'Corgi Toys' was chosen by Philip Ullmann in honour of the ...