New arrivals

Richard---Do you still see lots of the real ones driving around? They certainly made plenty of them over the years, and how nice that you have a real one. What year is yours? Best regards, Terry

Yes Terry. There are a lot on the roads. You even have a young company in Paris that rent the 2Cv with driver for a promenade in the streets. Mine is from 1983. Not very old. Once or twice a year, I visit England, specially the Nottinghamshire and, just in Beeston, I have seen 2 Citron, one in white and red that you can met in the university ant the second in two tones of grey that I often saw at the Sainsbury parking ! Kind regards Richard

Hi Friends. Yesterday morning, two new Dinky toys arrived ! 1) Breakdown lorry 25 X with its box in poor condition.... but an uncommon colors combination, ..I think ! 2) Simca 1500 in dark blue and dunlop tyres. Not very common This morning, four other Dinky : 1) Studebaker golden Hawk 169 : with this arrival, my studebaker gh family is complete. 2) Fire truck Delahaye 32D : it's the first version with a spring-band in U shape. Here too, the family is complete 3) wood carrier Willeme 36 : it's the second version. I already had the first and the third (to see in the right topic) : complete 4) Unic sahara tractor : it's the fiefth of my collection. Jan will probably ask : what is the difference with the four others , The answer is in the right topic but, if the photo is good enough, you can already see the particularity of this model ! That'all folks ! Richard

Just arrived from a friend in Christchurch (NZ). I have just gone to 'file' the hay rake in my cabinet when I noticed that the tinplate cover on the top of the tines was different to the existing one I already had. The new one is much simplified with 4 clips on the tow bar side (as opposed to 6) and 2 slots on the tines side instead of individual holes for the tops of each tine. Ron F

Hi all, It has been some time since my last post. Recently I was able to buy a 39 BU trade box. I have been looking for a 'U' trade box for a long time. The models were not with the box. Last week I could buy two other rarities, a mid blue Austin Atlantic with blue wheels and a pre-war Oldsmobile in maroon with blue wheels. Fatigue free and with a silver baseplate and thin axles. Perhaps you have seen these models on eBay. I have never seen a pre war 39 series with colored hubs before. Kind regards, Rob

Great finds, Rob. I wasn't even aware of the existence of a 39bu trade box! How about the other 39 series US exports? Kind regards, Jan

As with real cars, second-hand Dinky Toys 'have a history'. This 152 Austin Devon that just arrived shows that a former owner did not like the 'Gay' colour sheme and tried to remove the yellow by scratching and with a solvent (all the silvering has gone). The blue, however is almost mint except for where the scratching got a bit vigorous. Even if the owner had been successful, it would not have helped as the base color is yellow.It proves how hard it is to remove original Meccano paint as suspected with Bruce's Holden. Ron F

Hi Ron, I should have remembered to comment on your newly added Hay Rake. That is a remarkable observation you made. Which one does belong to the box, the simplified one with four clips? The sides seem to have different widths too, is that correct? It strikes me that both still have the same old 27k numbers cast in. Both my Hay Rakes (both identical with the six clips) have 27k cast in too. As both yours have, and so have mine (one of which comes from a 'new' 310 set and the other from an older 27K - 324 all yellow single item trade box), I wonder if that cast in number has ever changed into 324 or not. Perhaps you should add this post to a new 27k - 324 thread too. Thanks and kind regards, Jan

Hi Jan, As far as I know there are trade boxes for 39bu Oldsmobile, 39cu Lincoln Zephyr and 39eu Chrysler Royal. I assume these boxes were used for export for models with colored wings. Kind regards, Rob

Rob---Wonderful acquisition, and glad that it went to a fellow DTCA member. Indeed, I did see this listed, as part of a lot of Dinky's, and I remember being surprised that the seller did not mention more about this very rare model. I thought about bidding on it, saw only one person was bidding, but decided it would probably be a fruitless bidding war, so I passed. It appears to be in very good condition, with little or no fatigue.......very nice, and also wonderful you found that trade box.Best regards, Terry

A remarkable coincidence: Exactly 60 years ago now my older brother bought himself a simple Agfa photo camera and some ten miniature cars, most of them Dinky Toys, from the money he earned with a holiday job - as he actually did confirm to me a few minutes ago. I have shown the photo below on other occasions, but now some more zoomed in. There, you see i.a. the French no. 24C Citron DS 19, a wonderful almost futuristic model in those years. I was only used as a stand in, a 'model' for taking this photo, I was not allowed to really play with them. All models, as seen parked there, later on did fall into the hands of his younger brothers and none of them survived in the condition seen there. As it happened, the day before yesterday a 'brand new' DS 19 arrived and yesterday I bought a new camera replacing my 10 year old, faithful camera with which I made thousands of photos, many of the collection. An accident had happened and this was the decisive excuse to buy the new one with a much higher resolution and several objectives. Now the remarkable coincidence has happened that I made the first photo with that new camera of my 'new' DS 19, trying to get used to it, like my brother did 60 years ago with his new camera and his new DS 19! Kind regards, Jan

Hello Jan, Thanks for the interest in the 324 Hay Rake. Yes, the one with four clips came with the late box. There is still plenty to learn about Dinky Toys (thank goodness!). Ron F