Information about minor toy car
manufacturers (mostly British)
Look for the manufacturers in which you are
interested in the following list (approximately alphabetical).
More information will be added from time to time.
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![Agasee Motorbike and Sidecar Agasee Motorbike and Sidecar](Agasee-MotorbikeSidecar_t.jpg)
Agasee & Brooks, S.A.Agasee, Eebee, Aircast and L.Brooks
Click
here for a pictorial review of the products of these small
diecasters from north-east London.
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![Arbur Fire Engine Arbur Fire Engine](Arbur-FE-4window_t.jpg)
Arbur, LDCW, DHE Co. and Rollee
Click here
for information on models by these small diecasters from south London.
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![Arro Commer Van Arro Commer Van](ArroVan-3_t.jpg)
Arro - toys from Yorkshire?
Click here
for details of the two rather nice Arro models.
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![Benbros no.44 Bedford Crane Lorry Benbros no.44 Bedford Crane Lorry](Benbros-44-Crane-UMW_t.jpg)
Updating the Benbros booklet
Click here
for new discoveries since I published my booklet on Benbros T.V.Series
& Mighty Midgets. |
![Charbens catalogue cover 1955-58 Charbens catalogue cover 1955-58](Charbens-1955-001_t.jpg)
Charbens - forty years of toy vehicles from North London
Click
here for comprehensive details of the toy vehicles from this
long-running maker.
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![Goody Toys Morris Saloon Goody Toys Morris Saloon](DSCF0007_t.jpg)
Goody
Toys
Click
here for the intriguing history of this small British range of toy
cars from the 1930s. |
![Kembo Scammell Lorry Kembo Scammell Lorry](KemboTransport_t.jpg)
Kembo Scammell Trucks
Click
here for a pdf version of my Kembo article from Classic Toys magazine. |
![Kemlows Sentry Box Series box Kemlows Sentry Box Series box](SentryBox-box_t.jpg)
Kemlows Sentry Box Series
Click here
for details of these military miniatures with their novelty Sentry Box
packaging. |
![Tuckerbox Box Tuckerbox Box](Tuckerbox-Box-1_t.jpg)
Matchbox Toys from Down Under
Click
here for details of the Tucker Box and Lincoln Matchbox series of
miniature models from Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. |
![Lone Star Vauxhall Firenza Lone Star Vauxhall Firenza](LoneStar-07-07_t.jpg)
Lone Star Impy, Flyers & Commercials
Click
here for the history of Lone Star's efforts to be in contention in
the toy car wars of the 1960s and 1970s. |
![Lone Star Roadmaster Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud Lone Star Roadmaster Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud](articles/LoneStarRoadmasters/LoneStar-Rolls-Royce_t.jpg)
NEW!
Lone Star Roadmasters
Click
here for the story of Lone Star's 1:50 scale series of mostly
American cars. |
![Lone Star's factory at Great North Road, Hatfield Lone Star's factory at Great North Road, Hatfield](FACTORY_t.jpg)
An archive of the Lone Star website created by the late Geoffrey
Ambridge
Click here
for details. |
![Matchbox 1955 catalogue cover Matchbox 1955 catalogue cover](MB55cat-cover_t.jpg)
The first Matchbox catalogue
Click
here to learn all about the 1955 Matchbox catalogue and how a
high-quality reproduction was made available to collectors.
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![River Series Standard Vanguard River Series Standard Vanguard](RiverSeries-Vanguard-red_t.jpg)
River Series
Click
here for a comprehensive history of these models from Jordan &
Lewden Ltd. |
![Timpo Garage from 1946 Timpo Garage from 1946](106_t.jpg)
Timpo Vehicles
Click here for my old 1988-9
article (pdf file) - to be updated some time soon!
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