Dinky Toys Bibliography

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Wed, 04/14/2010 - 20:47

janwerner

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Dinky Toys Bibliography

Dear fellow DTCA members,

An old dream of mine may become true, since our webmaster Peter Golden kindly opened a new subject line in the Members Menu: a Dinky Toys Bibliography! And I think this dream is not mine only. No doubt many of you would like to have available a good, comprehensive list of Dinky Toys literature. Not everything will still be in print or otherwise within reach, but if you are really interested, these books or articles may be worth chasing, or the titles may simply offer a kind of index into your own magazines etc.
If you agree, please, help expanding this DTCA-list of literature to become THE international list of Dinky Toys literature, by sending corrections and suggestions for additional titles, new and old, not yet included. Indeed, also outdated publications are included, because they may be important to check sources, and simply to have an overview of the history of Dinky Toys writings.
Titles in many languages are welcome, for international use, because we have international aspirations. In that case, please add a suggestion for an English equivalent of the title and â€“ if judged necessary â€“ a short explanatory or evaluative annotation in English, as shown in the titles present in the list.
In the mean time, a systematic version may be prepared, organizing the titles in terms of topics, like subjects, series, model types or models discussed. But letâ€™s simply start alphabetical.
I would be glad to hear your comments, suggestions or, simply, to receive new contributions in order to compile regular updates! The first update has been executed already and hopefully many will follow.

Kind regards, Jan Werner

Fri, 10/31/2014 - 01:14

Dinkinius

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Jan

Four years and six months ago, you created this thread, but nothing further seems to have occurred! This surprises me not to see any contributions. I guess like so many good threads, it became buried with other threads that may have been more interesting to the wider membership.

Are you still interested in a Dinky Toys bibliography, and if so,I will be able to contribute. Would a picture of the dust jacket or cover be an added bonus?

Kind regards

Bruce

Fri, 10/31/2014 - 06:25

dinkyfan

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Bruce
Maybe you did not notice, but the area for the bibliography is not an active thread, but a separate section under the "Members Menu". Click on it & it will open up to an already extensive list.
Best regards,
Terry

Fri, 10/31/2014 - 06:25

dinkyfan

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Bruce
Maybe you did not notice, but the area for the bibliography is not an active thread, but a separate section under the "Members Forum". Click on it & it will open up to an already extensive list.
Best regards,
Terry

Fri, 10/31/2014 - 06:43

Dinkinius

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Terry

Thanks for telling me - twice!!

I am going through all the old threads and re-activating those that may be of interest. The moderator should have deleted this thread or made a post for members not to use the thread.

I stand guilty as charged.

Any other threads that have served their purpose? I ask this as the Forum is becoming quite long as well as confusing for some.

Bruce

Fri, 10/31/2014 - 06:54

dinkyfan

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Bruce
I am quite sorry about the double post....I surely did not intend that. That also brings up a thought I had on another occasion....anyone should be able to delete their post, much as it can be edited. Things happen & it would be best to delete them.
In re-thinking my post, I think it good to keep this thread active, so others will be made aware of Jan's effort.
Best regards,
Terry

Fri, 10/31/2014 - 07:28

janwerner

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Hi Bruce, I can hardly express my gratitude that ANYBODY notices this after so many years. To be honest, I felt quite frustrated about the virtually ZERO comments or contributions to this, apart from some very friendly, like John's as far as I remember, exceptions. So my conclusion was that the bibliography was apparently not appreciated at all.
There were two other complications. We were very sorry to see our friend Peter Golden getting ill and he died after some time. In that period it was harder and harder to have him assist in putting new information in forum sections like the Bibliography.
The other complication was that - as some of you may know - I have been extremely busy in the past five years. Even my private Dinky Toys collection catalogue is still not up-to-date because of that. But I would certainly have overcome these complications, and persevered, and put my energy in the bibliography with all pleasure, if I had the idea that - if only a few - members felt happy with it and if I felt supported by some constructive tips and new hard to find titles. And this did not happen.
I know exactly where I stopped my new entries, that was February 2011. I had many ideas about it and I wanted to restructure it in order to be able to find titles not only alphabetically on author, but also - more importantly - under subject headings. But this is too much effort for zero appreciation of the visitors of this site. If I would be convinced of sincere appreciation and helpful support, I might seriously consider to pick it up again and make it - with the support of an international membership like this association's - THE unsurpassed, international Dinky Toys bibliography ..........
Kind regards, Jan

Fri, 10/31/2014 - 08:12

dinkycollect

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About Dinky Toys books, Claude Wagner with whom we published two books / French Dinky Toys Aircraft and Dinky Toys les modÃ¨les FranÃ§ais 1934 - 1940 has started to work on a new book. For this he needs catalogs with the name and address of the shop who has distributed it.

Can you please send me the scans of the page of your catalogues with the stamp or print of the shop name and address and attach the year and when available the month of that catalogue.

Thanks and regards.

P.S. If you do not have the book "Dinky Toys les modÃ¨les FranÃ§ais 1934 - 1940", there are only six left and they will certainly be sold before this year ends.

Fri, 10/31/2014 - 09:59

john45

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Hello Jan,

Great idea your list of literature. I buy almost every book on Dinky Toys that is on the market. You always find new information.
I will send you a updated list from last three years. I presume you have most of the books published recently. I include also the magazines I have found such as Collectionneur Chinneur and La vie du collectionneur.
Hope you continue your bibliography.

John.

Tue, 11/04/2014 - 07:23

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janwerner

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Dear all, in close cooperation with John Beugels I will pick up the Dinky Toys Bibiography and bring it up-to-date as soon as possible, and as far I can. Nevertheless: the support and entries of all of you will be appreciated. Especially publications that you think might be hidden for a general readership (those in your own country, in specialist or general magazines not primarily dealing with Dinky Toys or even not with models at all) will be appreciated to be known. I will repeat the notes here on the introduction page of the bibliography:

"This is a bibliography, so no other than printed sources are included. No CDâ€™s, DVDâ€™s or references / links to websites on the Internet will be found in this list. Our DTCA member Jacques Dujardinâ€™s Dinky Toys Encyclopeadia is dealt with elsewhere on this DTCA website.

No prices or availability are stated, because that is easily traceable via the Internet, even for officially out of print books. Outdated publications are included as well, because they may be important to check sources, and simply to have an overview of the history of Dinky Toys writings.

Please, help expanding this DTCA-list to become THE list of Dinky Toys literature, by sending corrections and suggestions for titles not yet included â€“ adopting the format as demonstrated in the titles there â€“ to the emailaddress mentioned there. If possible, a scan of the first or title page would be appreciated (but this is not â€˜compulsoryâ€™, of course).

Titles in many languages are welcome, for international use. In that case, please add a suggestion for an English equivalent of the title and â€“ if judged necessary â€“ a short explanatory or evaluative annotation in English, as shown in the titles present in the list.

In the meantime a systematic version may be prepared, organizing the titles in terms of topics, like subjects, series, model types or models discussed."

Kind regards, Jan

Tue, 11/04/2014 - 14:52

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Richard

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Hi Jan.
Do the "bulletins" of the french Dinky Club (6 publications/year and 56 pages/bulletin) are interesting for you ? For example, the last publication is studying the Refuse Wagon in the french and english dinky range. There is also an article that can amuse you : two pages on the Dinky Toys Club of your country ! the title is : hoe worden dinky toys gemaakt.
The president of my french club, Guy Girod, has made (him also!) an encyclopÃ©dia of 11 volumes and shows all the french and english Dinky Toys.
Here we have a magazine named "Argus de la Miniature" Every year or every two years (I don't remember) they publish a kind of price-list of all the dinky.It's made by Mr. E. Flament
There are also all the catalogues of the sales in Bourges, by Mr. Salmon.
What about the "Meccano Magazine" ?

I have the following books :
-Utilitaires Dinky Toys et Dinky Supertoys written by Thierry Redempt and NoÃ«l Touillez.
It's a book on the french vans and trucks
-From the same authors : Le salon de l'Automobile vu par Dinky Toys. It's a book on the french series 100, 500 et 1400.
-Once again, written by Thierry Redempt but with Claude Wagner, a book named "Dinky Toys" on the french vans, trucks, buses of the 25 and 500 series + military items.

Whet do you want me to do ?
Please advise, if I can help.
Kind regards

Richard

Tue, 11/04/2014 - 19:37

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janwerner

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Hi Richard, I appreciate your cooperation very much! Especially in the French Dinky sphere I have done too little (because it's only for a few years that I have been more active in this field).
I will contact you very soon in order to be more precise.
Bien cordialement, Jan

Tue, 11/04/2014 - 22:31

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dinkycollect

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I want to add a comment to Richard's description of the book SÃ©rie 25 et militaires.

The part about the series 25 has been written by Claude Wagner and the editor thought that the book was too thin, he added the part about the French military models written by Thierry Redempt. This second part is very poor, the author has copied it from Roulet's book including all the mistakes. The text shows that the authors Roulet and Redempt knew very little about Dinky Toys and nothing at all about military vehicles.

In his other books, Redempt has changed the colour of the models, the same models in different colours show exactly the same paint chips. Some photos are inverted the left hand drive vehicles are shown with right hand drive and these are not variations.

Jacques.