One hundred years of model cars
Articles and photographs from sixty years of collecting toy and scale model cars, from penny toys to land speed record Bluebirds.
Written and photographed by The author
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Collecting Bluebird Models and Toys
It took Malcolm Campbell’s 1928 Land Speed Record at Daytona Beach in the USA to capture the attention of the toy manufacturers. His previous exploits and records established in Europe didn’t get modelled until the 1970s when artisans started producing collectible scale models of Campbell’s earlier record holders, about which, more later.
368 photographs, 8 min read
1/43 Scale Model Cars: The First Hundred Years
18 photographs, 4 min read
Dinky 23a and 220: Fourth English Casting, Post War
I refer to this as the Fourth casting because from above the models appear to be cast identically.
5 photographs, 2 min read
Dinky Toys 23a Variations: Third English Casting
The third English casting, introduced in December 1934 and deleted circa 1940.
9 photographs, 1 min read