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2. Lesney Products - Wikipedia

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   Caterpillar Bulldozer (1948), later scaled down to become Matchbox no. 18; Milk Float (1949), later scaled down to become Matchbox no. 7; this was the 1st toy made in Lesney's second factory at Barratts Grove; Soap-Box Racer (1949) Rag & Bone Cart (1949) Prime Mover & Trailer (1950), used in different scales later as Matchbox 1-75 and Major ...

3. Matchbox (brand) - Wikipedia

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   A 1953-55 Lesney-Matchbox Road Roller, one of the first toys to be produced under the Matchbox name. The Matchbox name originated in 1953 as a brand name of the British die-casting company Lesney Products, whose reputation was moulded by [2] John W. "Jack" Odell (1920–2007), [3] Leslie Charles Smith (1918–2005), [4] and Rodney Smith.

4. Die-cast toy - Wikipedia

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   Their popular Matchbox 1–75 series was so named because there were always 75 different vehicles in the line, each packaged in a small box designed to look like those used for matches. These toys became so popular that the "Matchbox" became widely used as a generic term for any die-cast toy car, regardless of manufacturer.

5. Elvis Presley's Pink Cadillac - Wikipedia

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   After the public attention to Elvis' car, many individual car owners in the 1950s began to paint their cars various shades of pink. Although the original car was a 1955 four-door sedan, the more replicated version in popular culture is a pink 1959 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible, which has been sold as miniature replicas by many companies ...

6. Dinky Toys - Wikipedia

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   Dinky Toys was the brand name for a range of die-cast zamak zinc alloy scale model vehicles, traffic lights, and road signs produced by British toy company Meccano Ltd.They were made in England from 1934 to 1979, at a factory in Binns Road in Liverpool.

7. Micro Machines - Wikipedia

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   For 3 to 4 years, Micro Machines was the largest selling toy car line in the US with total dollar sales exceeding the combined sales of the next top-selling lines: Hot Wheels, Matchbox and Majorette. Micro Machines had a well-known advertising campaign in the 1980s involving fast-talker John Moschitta Jr.

8. Lledo - Wikipedia

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   Lledo was a British manufacturing company founded in 1982 by Matchbox co-founder Jack Odell, and Burt Russell, [1] and based in Enfield. The factory produced mainly die-cast scale model commercial vehicles, and also cars, from 1983 to 1999, when the company went into bankruptcy. Models were later made in China. "Lledo" was a reversal of Odell's ...

9. Hot Wheels Let's Race - Wikipedia

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   Hot Wheels Let's Race is an American animated children's television series based on the Hot Wheels toy line by Mattel.It was released on Netflix on March 4, 2024. [1] The second season was released on September 9, 2024, [2] and it has been renewed for a third season, set to be released on March 3, 2025.