BACK IN THE 1950s!!

Hello Everyone Thought I would share with you a very young fellow, proudly showing off his new 982 Pullmore Car Transporter. My apologies for the clarity as this picture has been cropped from a larger family gathering. It was actually a picnic about 150 miles from home and I could not go without taking my transporter!

Hello Another day,
still with my 982 Pullmore Car Transporter ! Again apologies for the clarity.This
and the previous photograph was taken in January 1956.[img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / 55080A___Copy_645x800.jpg [/img]

Once more,
another day,
and I brought out some of my Dinky Toys
and attempted to make a town scene complete with ' buildings ' with the exception of the Bayko building,
the only one that actually resembled a real building ! The slide was taken in December 1956
or early 1957.Thanks to Dad who allowed me to use his Voigtlander camera ! Hope you enjoyed my little trip down memory lane ! Now to get back to reading my Eagle,
while someone else catches up on the latest in ' John Bull ',
before collecting the latest copy of Meccano Magazine.What a care - free life back then.[img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / DinkyOnCement002_01___Copy___Copy_800x297.jpg [/img]

That is absolutely fabulous,
the Guy would be struggling with a Centurion on the back ! The buildings are great,
I get a few old playworn Dinky Toys out sometimes with my grandson,
it is such fun.Dave

Thanks Dave ! (
I wonder what happened to this page as the right side has been cut somehow.Wonder what I did !
) As for the Guy,
yes it would be struggling,
except
from
memory it took it in its stride ! Actually it was a tailboard version.The Guy was used as a grader by holding it upside down
and the tailboard was used to grade earthen roads in our backyard
and
after
a spell it developed a crack,
so in need of a tank transporter,
and with the Guy being in green,
I recall breaking the tailboard off
and voila,
it became my mini Mighty Antar ! ! Fast forward to 1997,
and I finally obtained my Mighty Antar ! Yes I know,
sacrilegious to have done that to my Guy,
but wait for me to tell you later what I did with my Big Bedford Heinz Van ! ! ! Well I guess I was doing what Mr Hornby intended - using my Dinky Toys to play with ! Whoever thought in the 50s of being given a new Dinky
and then placing it in a glass case ! ! Bruce

Absolutely Bruce,
they were toys,
and they were loved but I never thought of them as collectibles.Here is the only picture I have of me playing with toys at my grandparents house in Grassington,
North Yorkshire.[img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / Me_at_Grassington.jpg [/img] I remember the tinplate racing car
and a Dinky Blaw - Knox Heavy Tractor can just be seen,
I guess I would have been about 4 at the time so this would have been taken in 1950.Happy Days ! ! ! Dave

Nice Dinky childhood history ! I have shown them more than once,
but,
OK,
in this thread they are no misfits: [img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / Jan_en_Frits_5_december_1956.jpg [/img] My no.660 Thornycroft Mighty Antar Tank Transporter,
it came out of the box on 5 December 1956.[img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / IMG_7732.jpg [/img] The very example in the background,
after
numerous repaints,
one of the two later fine no.660 additions in original condition for the collection in the foreground.[img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / Oude_afbeeldingen_341.jpg [/img] Posing for my elder brother ' s camera with his Dinky Toys,
1957,
the only moment I was allowed to touch them.Lateron they did fall into my
and my younger brother ' s hands
and they became playworn in a very short period...Kind regards,
Jan

Great photos
and stories
from
all of you...thanks for sharing such wonderful memories ! Since most of us are about the same age,
we all have wonderful memories of both receiving those Dinky ' s at Christmas
and also playing with them.Wonderful bygone days for sure ! Terry

Yes,
nice pictures.I should find another one in my files,
showing my younger brother,
also as a ' model ' for showing some of my elder brother ' s Dinkies
and related toy cars,
standing on their boxes.Slightly off topic,
continuing with the present fate
and adoptions of my Tank Transporters as referred to above: [img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / IMG_9754 -20140725.JPG [/img] My ' Collection Tank Transporters ',
posing here on my Dinky calendar of this year.[img] / images / sites / default / files / old - forum - images / IMG_7733.JPG [/img] My childhood Tank Transporter truck,
the way I use it at present in my displays,
as a stage for my hitherto unidentified military component part,
found in the Binns Road factory
after
closure (does someone know in the meantime ?).Truck
and trailer have been disconnected long ago in order to satisfy my curiosity (!).Jan

Back in the ' 50s,
but not I am afraid a Dinky.Anyone like to hazard a guess on the bus model ? I also had a Minic van at the time.My sister has avoided buses ever since.

Just a wonderful photo
from
childhood days.....What memories these bring back for most of us ! You
and your brothers had a pretty nice collection going there.I have some color slide photos of my early Dinky collecting,
starting around 1955
or so,
but I need to have them digitized so I can show them.Terry

Hope you can acquire a slide scanner
and start scanning
and sharing Terry ! I
and many others look forward to seeing your Dinky Toys in a period setting ! Bruce