Vintage Matchbox Cars, Trucks and Buses
During the late 1940s, an industrial diecasting firm called Lesney Products branched into small, affordable toys modeled after the Dinky line at their factory in London. Though the outbreak of the Korean War led the British government to ban zinc for toy manufacturing, Lesney had stockpiled tons of the material and supplemented its toy business with the production of car parts until the war ended.
Luckily for Lesney, zinc restrictions were...Continue Reading