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Scale model fire engines, trucks, cars. Parent. Matrix Holdings Ltd. (2007–11) Code 3 Collectibles was an American company based in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles that created customized scale model vehicles. The company was founded by Arnie Rubin, [ 1] who had previously established Funrise Toy Corporation, owner of Tonka among other brands.
Playart toys were made in Hong Kong. Playart was a toy company owned by Hong Kong industrialist Duncan Tong (唐鼎康) that specialized in die-cas toy cars, similar in size and style to Hot Wheels, Matchbox or Tomica. Cars were well done, but were often diecast seconds from other companies like Yatming or Tomica.
The Hubley Manufacturing Company made accurate metal replicas of many popular American cars and trucks, with some foreign models also represented. Construction, farm, and fire vehicles were commonly produced, as well as motorcycles. A couple of earlier examples were a detailed 1934 Chrysler Airflow, a 1934 Ford coupe, and a 1930s Studebaker.
Only a couple, like the Cooper and Mercedes Streamliner were replicas of real cars. Early diecast Fun Ho! cars were a Ford Model A, a 1949 Ford, a Packard Roadster, an Austin Healey 100, a Studebaker saloon, a Humber Hawk, an MG TD roadster, a Jaguar XK 120 convertible and coupe, the above-mentioned Mercedes Streamliner and an interesting early ...
Ban Seng – Malaysian manufacturer from the 2000s, specializing in 1:43 concept cars made in very short production runs. Bang – Italian manufacturer, later 1980s, specializing in 1:43 Ferraris, picked up where Box Models left off. Banthrico – Die cast car banks in 1:25th and other scales.
Mattel (1989–95) Corgi Classics Ltd. (1995–2008) [ 1] Website. corgi.co.uk. Corgi Toys ( trademark) is the brand name of a range of die-cast toy vehicles created by Mettoy and currently owned by Hornby, [ 2] after it acquired the Corgi Classics Limited Company in 2008.
Dinky Toys was the brand name for a range of die-cast zamak zinc alloy scale model vehicles, traffic lights, and road signs produced by British toy company Meccano Ltd. They were made in England from 1934 to 1979, at a factory in Binns Road in Liverpool . Dinky Toys were among the most popular die-cast vehicles ever made – pre-dating other ...
Lledo. Lledo was a British manufacturing company founded in 1982 by Matchbox co-founder Jack Odell, and Burt Russell, [ 1] and based in Enfield. The factory produced mainly die-cast scale model commercial vehicles, and also cars, from 1983 to 1999, when the company went into bankruptcy . Models were later made in China.