Hello all

Very nice pictures in the previous messages  Nice to see how good the Dinky model makers were !!

I like the old Fire engine , I didn't know it was based on a real one.

I add some pictures of the MG record car ; the real one is in the museum at Gaydon

regards

Jan Willem

Great picture Jan Willem. Another overview here of the Gaydon record cars presentation. I was there in 2009. Fortunately I will be there again next month, when the AGM weekend of the Dinky Toys Collector's Association will be held in the Gaydon Motor Museum.





I hope you like another view, taken from a 1930s Dutch newspaper, announcing Major Gardner's new record attempt. Gardner (1890-1958) is sitting in the car, Lord Nuffield, president of MG, standing next to it. 

Kind regards, Jan

well... he wanted to try...

Jan--
More great pictures....thanks again! I always like that MG record car, a beautiful little model that very accurately represented the real car. That should be nice for you to visit there again!

Some more 1930's newspaper pictures, of the no. 23/23a and 23b. The Hotchkiss seems hard to find in authentical pictures.







The 'Magic Midget' with Eyston next to it. The MG Record Car above is this racing car in disguise.

Regards, Jan

Jan I know you love your racing cars and these images taken from my MG Collectibles book. The inspiration created around the world for toy companies was to cash in on the remarkable record breaking 100 mph by the Magic Midget MG EX120 and Dinky was one of those first players in the toy world to do so with their 23a.































Some of the first examples from Dinky Toys that were issued in approximately 1933-34. These EX127 toys came in numerous colour schemes and some of them are depicted above and I am sure Jan you are very familiar with these above.

If there is a MG toy made they are included somewhere within the bindings of this book.

































Cheers Jan

I just love the way those artists of the day captured these images of spead from their days past. Or should I say decades past.



Wouldn't have a clue about the name of these image flying past.



Nor these bandits on the run above or the speed depicted below although it could be the 23a?



 

Moreover, we just have to love this girl.

Cheers Jan.

top photo definitely an Auto-Union

second photo #26 is a Mercedes-Benz, and #3 a F.I.A.T.

Thanks very much, Gunner Jim, for this overwhelming amount of MG racing car models information. It's not only the racers, but ANY automotive and other technical development of that era that deeply interests me! It's the middle one of the three record cars shown underneath (and probably repeated on the yellow box on the illustration below that) that really strikes me. This is the wooden mock-up for the Dinky model which is shown in black and white only in Dinky Toys & Modelled Miniatures, fig. 5, page 20.

Another 1930s development then, another exponent of the 'streamline fashion',  which was a typical characteristic of 1930s design and fashion, inspired both by further reduction of air resistance (aviation, racing cars, trains) and art deco style in art.








The Dinky Toys no. 16/798 'Silver Jubilee' Train Set / Express Passenger Train Set / Express Passenger Train, which was in these subsequent versions available from 1937 till 1960. The 60010, Dominion of Canada shown, both a contemporary photo and the cover of Meccano Magazine of April 1956. The real one is still on display in the Canadian Railway Museum near Montreal.

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_...9_Dominion_of_Canada

Kind regards, Jan

I know of one collector in Geelong that has one in amongst his great collection.





And there is another train too.

I wouldn't mind a closer look at the little red tow truck that appeares to be pre-war...

With white tires and black fenders I would say it is pre war for sure. Post war had the all in one colors

Yes Richard. The breakdown Crane or Breakdown Car? (I have two versions for this name in my books) Number 30e as it has the little cut out in the back of the cab for the window. Next time I go there to visit, I will endeavour to take a couple of closer images.

Like this one but in a lot better condition.












Wrong truck image but it wont do will it. Oh not a Ford so maybe it is actually a 1936 Bedford.



Best I can do.

Some other Dinky oldies and the real ones:


No. 38e Armstrong Siddeley Coupe



 


No. 531 Comet Wagon




 


No. 737 P. IB Lightning Fighter



Regards, Jan