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 & 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, LDCW, DHE Co. and Rollee
Click here
for information on models by these small diecasters from south London.
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Arro - toys from Yorkshire?
Click here
for details of the two rather nice Arro models.
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Updating the Benbros booklet
Click here
for new discoveries since I published my booklet on Benbros T.V.Series
& Mighty Midgets. |

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
Click
here for the intriguing history of this small British range of toy
cars from the 1930s. |

Kembo Scammell Trucks
Click
here for a pdf version of my Kembo article from Classic Toys magazine. |

Kemlows Sentry Box Series
Click here
for details of these military miniatures with their novelty Sentry Box
packaging. |

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 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. |

NEW!
Lone Star Roadmasters
Click
here for the story of Lone Star's 1:50 scale series of mostly
American cars. |

An archive of the Lone Star website created by the late Geoffrey
Ambridge
Click here
for details. |

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
Click
here for a comprehensive history of these models from Jordan &
Lewden Ltd. |

Timpo Vehicles
Click here for my old 1988-9
article (pdf file) - to be updated some time soon!
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