Where it came from

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Wed, 09/26/2012 - 19:12

buzzer999

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As most of you will be aware I have just stepped down as the Editor of the DTCA Journal, in every issue I used to do a "Where it came from" feature.

This was tying up a Dinky Toy with the real world vehicle it was modelled on.

I have a large selection of original leaflets along with their corresponding Dinky Toys so I thought I would put some on this site over the winter months.

The first one is the Austin A105 saloon which of course was the first Dinky saloon car to be fitted with windows.

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 10:34

starni999

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Brilliant! Great to see more of these. Colour match is good too, though reversed, good to see it's on a Birmingham registration number as well!
Chris Warr.

Thu, 09/27/2012 - 10:57

buzzer999

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Here is one for the Austin Wagon 30h and Austin Covered Wagon 30s

The Austin original was introduced in 1946 and the Dinky version in 1950

Dave

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 21:57

dinkyfan

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Here is the Dinky Oldsmobile 6 sedan, #39b

Terry

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 22:04

dinkyfan

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Here is the Buick Viceroy, called a Roadmaster in the U.S.....#39d

Terry

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 11:57

buzzer999

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These are great Terry, I have always loved the Dinky American cars.

Probably because they were rare in the UK but we saw lots of them in films, especially the old black and white cops and robbers movies.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 22:10

dinkyfan

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Another American car.....this is the Studebaker Commander, 39f

Terry

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 22:24

dinkyfan

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Here is 23m, the Thunderbolt speed record car, which Dinky used for a very long running model. Sadly, I remember reading some history of this car and it was destroyed I believe in a fire. For some time there were epic speed duels with John Cobb and his record car. In looking at these photos, it is clear that Dinky made a pretty accurate model.
Terry

Tue, 10/02/2012 - 11:25

buzzer999

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The Thunderbolt is a lovely Dinky model, I was born just after the war so I remember John Cobb and Malcolm Campbell.

Here is the original for the Dinky 152c Austin Seven:

Taken from an Austin booklet called "Austin 50 Years of Car Progress" 1905 to 1955. I guess to be totally accurate Sir Herbert should be wearing his tin hat!!

Dave

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 22:47

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dinkyfan

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Another favorite of mine is the French Dinky Buick Roadmaster..........

Terry

Wed, 10/03/2012 - 12:32

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buzzer999

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Looking at the original and the model Dinky got it absolutely right. Dave

Thu, 10/04/2012 - 14:33

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buzzer999

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The 25p/251 Aveling Barford Road Roller.

There's lots more of these over the coming months.

Dave

Thu, 10/04/2012 - 17:06

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buzzer999

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The 40d/152 Austin Devon.

Dave

Thu, 10/04/2012 - 17:53

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buzzer999

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A Bedford CA leaflet and the Dinky versions.

The Dinky version was very accurate to the original.

Dave

Thu, 10/04/2012 - 18:48

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dinkyfan

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That Bedford CA van had to be a very popular and prolific van over in Britian, and have seen other models of it as well. Dinky certainly did well with their version and it does appear to be quite accurate...the only comment I can make is that from the photos it appears that the front grill is actually flat with vents in it and not the raised chrome grill that Dinky shows.....and I think the Dinky actually looks better for it!
Terry

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 23:02

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dinkyfan

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Another American sedan, this time 39a, the Packard Super 8 Sedan

Terry

Fri, 10/05/2012 - 12:08

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buzzer999

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The Packard Super 8 is an impressive looking vehicle.

Here is Bedford advert for the 621 3-ton Truck

Below are three variations of the 621

Dave

Fri, 10/05/2012 - 12:50

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Meccano chose to model the Vauxhall in house body of the RL, Vauxhall put the spare wheel under the body. All later production used Marshall bodies with the spare wheel behind the cab. :P

Fri, 10/05/2012 - 13:11

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buzzer999

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Here is the rear page of the above leaflet.

The note about the spare wheel confirms the above.

Dave

Fri, 10/05/2012 - 16:27

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Vauxhall built over 72,000 RL's in both military and civilian models, originally as a 3 ton, later upgraded to 4 ton at the end of their lives, replaced by the MK in turn supplemented by the MJ which in turn replaced by the Leyland DAF weight increased to a 5 ton, and currently the MAN range are replacing the Leyland Daf. Although it seems at least one Bedford MJ is still in service, I observed it on the M27 recently. :woohoo:

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 23:09

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dinkyfan

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Another favorite model of mine is the early French Dinky 25 series Studebaker trucks.....

Terry

Sat, 10/06/2012 - 20:54

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buzzer999

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The Studebaker is another fine example of the Dinky being true to the original.

Here is the Big Bedford:

Dave

Sat, 10/06/2012 - 20:56

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buzzer999

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The image for the above is 610 x 640 pixels and I thought that fell within the rules.

Am I doing something wrong?

Dave

Sat, 10/06/2012 - 23:23

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dinkyfan

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Dave--
Not sure what happened to your pictures. In my case, I load everything onto Photobucket, then transfer to the posts here. No matter how large my original is, Photobucket seems to downsize it automatically....I have never had a problem posting here or on other sites. To me it works very well and is very easy to do.

Terry

Tue, 10/09/2012 - 11:29

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Trying the Big Bedford again, this time the image is 572 x 600 pixels

Dave

Tue, 10/09/2012 - 16:47

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Here is the 591/991 AEC Shell Tanker with its real world equivalent.

I found the advert for the Thompson Brothers (Bilston) tanker the other day purely by accident.

It is reproduced here with kind permission of Grace's Guide.

It is lovely to stumble across something like this.

Dave

Tue, 10/09/2012 - 17:55

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Dave--
Thanks for showing....both the Big Bedford and the AEC tankers were wonderful models by Dinky, well detailed and very colorful. It is great to see those ads and how well Dinky modeled them....that tanker looks exactly like the Dinky version, down to the Shell logos!

Terry

Fri, 10/12/2012 - 11:26

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Here is an original Bedford leaflet dated 1948, the Dinky Bedford Refuse Truck 25v and the Bedford End Tipper 25m both appeared in the Dinky range in 1948.