Finally installed and on public display, this outrageous collection of over four hundred early Dinky Toys and lead Hornby Modelled Miniatures represents the range from 1932 up until 1941, and has pretty much everything the company made before the closedown of production in World War Two (but not necessarily in every single colour variation!).
The pre-WW2 Dinky range consisted of over three hundred different designs, many of which never reappeared after the war. Where the immediately post-war range of road vehicles adopted the muted colours of real vehicles of the 1940s and 1950s, the pre-war range were often eyecatchingly brightly-coloured. Because of the problems that Meccano Ltd. initially had using the new MAZAK diecasting alloy, much of the pre-war production was prone to eventual warping, cracking and even complete disintegration, so comparatively few examples have survived in good condition.
Incredibly, most of the collection is accompanied by original trade retail boxes.
