Where it came from

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.

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.

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

Here is the Dinky Oldsmobile 6 sedan, #39bTerry

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



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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.

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

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

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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

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

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

The 25p/251 Aveling Barford Road Roller. there's lots more of these over the coming months. Dave