New arrivals

Gentlemen The post today brought my latest acquisition, a 102 MG Midget Sports in Touring Finish, orange with red hubs and interior. A truly excellent addition to my collection, and who says quality items are difficult to obtain through eBay! This version joins its fellow stablemate in green. I have had a number of green MG Midgets, including the near mint boxed example still in my collection but finding a good quality 102 in orange and at a reasonable price has proved elusive- until now! Bruce

Collecting Dinky Toys can give so much pleasure when unpacking a parcel to find a mint 25E Tipper with smooth hubs and an open chassis. Even the plating left on the radiator still shines after almost 60 years. Fantastic! Kind regards, Rob

Rob The 25 series is wonderful to collect, and what a wonderful example....very nice!! Terry

Wonderful 25 Tipper Rob. I love the 25's and still remember going to the Stratford House antiques shop in Broad St B,ham and my Dad buying a mint Type 4 covered wagon for the (then) huge sum of

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Just received two new Dinky's over this past weekend, so always fun to open each and see them for the first time. The first one is a model I should have bought years ago, but just never got around to it...the #669 U.S. Army Jeep. This is a very nice representation of a real Jeep from that era (around 1955), and this one arrived in not mint, but excellent condition, along with a decent box. It did arrive with the large smooth tires, not the later treaded ones, so am guessing it was made around 1955 or 1956. The U.S. Dinky catalogs so this in model in the 1955, 1956, and 1957 catalogs. The box does not show the picture of the Jeep, so am assuming that is also an earlier box. Terry

alongside its civilian brother

The other new arrival this past weekend was the #893 Unic Saharien Pipe Truck. Many years ago, I had purchased its 'cousin', the Willeme Log Truck, and then the Unic Car Transporter, but for some reason I never had followed through on this nice truck. I was lucky to find one virtually new in the box....it certainly has never been played with, and doesn't appear to have even been displayed for any amount of time...no telltale dust anywhere. This is a fairly early one, as it has the perforated support beam, running the length of the trailer. And it also has the earlier ridged front wheels. Later versions also featured white wheels for the two spares mounted on the rear of the cab.......does anyone know why Dinky would have chosen different color wheels for those spares? Terry

I love the dual rear wheels and tires!

Wow, Terry, those are nice additions! As the French Tracteur Unic Saharien is concerned, my story goes almost parallel to yours. Ever since the French started with their double rear wheels on the larger commercials, I was very much impressed with the realistic looks of those, and my preference went to the French Supertoys. Lateron I specialized in the British ones again, because of their 'nostaligic naivety' on that point. it's a mere ten years ago that I surrendered again for these French ones. The only one I had from childhood was the Will

Hi all, Wonderful models, by this time the French Supertoys really were far ahead of their English brothers, the loads and detailing are very good indeed, and such great play value. Chris Warr.

The real one has a great play-value too!

Hi everybody, My new Dinky arrived this morning. I discover that there is a lot of variants for this model ! Hum ! I like that ! The hunting is open ! :laugh: :laugh: I already have an 'orange' one, now the green, and I am waiting for a red ! :woohoo: :woohoo: Kind regards. Richard

This is not a new arrival, but seeing Terry and Jan's photos of their 893, I had a look at my example (which must have had a rough life in the Sahara, dropping its load of pipes and picking up a rubber band :laugh: ) but then I noticed the cab and engine hood were of a different colour to the chassis and trailer, as well as the hubs. Any reason for this apart from a possible repaint which I think it is not. Kind regards Bruce