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Dinky builder advert, 1958: "The house that Jack and Jill built" [image info]

Dinky Builder was Meccano Ltd.'s attempt to produce a different type of construction toy to Meccano, that wouldn't need nuts or bolts or spanners.

Where Meccano had always been targeted at boys, with an emphasis on replicating real-world engineering constructions such as bridges and cranes, Dinky Builder was intended to be a simpler and more general-purpose construction toy that could be used to create "play pieces" of very simple houses and push-along cars that didn't have to be faithful to the construction methods of the originals.

For Dinky Builder, the company chose to stay with metal, and produced sets of metal plates with castellated curved edges that could be interlocked and locked together with metal push-rods.

Dinky Builder marketing made a point of being aimed at both boys and girls, and typically featured a picture of a boy and a girl playing together.