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AMW – German 1:87 scale (HO) plastic, mostly trucks and buses/coaches with authentic liveries. Name was changed to AWM. Anguplas – Spanish 1:87 scale maker from the early 1960s [2] Anker – Plastic toys from East Germany 1960s-1970s. Name later changed to Piko [3] Anson – Mostly 1:18 scale from Hong Kong, mostly European vehicles. Engine ...
Scale Aircraft Modelling, Guideline, January 2013; Plastic Model & Tool Catalog 2015 , Magazine Daichi, April 2015; Lune, Peter van. "FROG Penguin plastic scale model kits 1936 - 1950". Zwolle, The Netherlands, 2017, published by author ISBN 978-90-9030180-8
The Husky line, introduced in 1964, was designed to compete in size with the "1-75 series" Matchbox, which were the market leaders in small-scale toy vehicles at the time. Husky cars and trucks were inexpensive and originally sold only at Woolworth's stores at a price which undercut their rival.
Diecast Collector is a British magazine dedicated to the hobby of collecting diecast metal vehicles. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Published monthly, it is a thick, glossy magazine featuring a variety of articles on toy and model cars , trucks, and buses, and aircraft .
A scale proposed by some European manufacturers (e.g. Wiking) to supersede HO scale. 1:87.1: 3.5 mm: Model railways (HO/h0) Exact HO scale (half O of 7 mm = 1 foot) 1:87: 3.503 mm: Model railways (HO/h0) Civilian and military vehicles. Often used to describe HO scale. Original nominal 25 mm figure scale; though a 6-foot human in 1:87 is closer ...
For toys, many European pre-war cars and trucks were made to display with railroad layouts, making 1:87 (1 to 2 inches, or HO scale) or 1:43 (about 4 inches long, or O scale) common scales. Other companies made vehicles in variations around 1:40 to 1:50 scales.
Buddy L made such products as toy cars, dump trucks, delivery vans, fire engines, construction equipment, [3] and trains. [4] Fred Lundahl used to manufacture for International Harvester trucks. [1] He started by making a toy dump truck out of steel scraps for his son Buddy. Soon after, he started selling Buddy L "toys for boys", made of ...
Hubley Real Toys 1958 Ford Sheriff's Car in about 1:50 scale. Toy is from about 1960. Wheels are from a later Matchbox. Another direction around 1960, was Hubley's pre-assembled Real Toys line (called Real Types in Canada). These cars were about 1:50 scale and measured approximately 3 1 ⁄ 4 inches long. [10]