janwerner, I did not leave yet, just read this message. Have you mentioned it to the moderator? Explaining what has happened with the pictures jumping posts?
Thanks for your reply about pictures jumping. goodnight dinkyboy

The pink Saratoga as requsted, Jan. As in the advertisement, the chauffeur's legs are missing...

And the Riley ; the real one has a beautifull mechanism with chains to open the front window as you can see in the picture , I don't know if that was standard.

















 

I feel sorry for the crippled Chrysler driver, but he is pivileged to drive such a car.

Back to Britain with the Dinky Toys no 40j/161 Austin Somerset:






Regards, Jan

picked up the Austin emblem a few years ago.


Dinky Policebox shows its size.

Nice object to have, RVREVO!

The Austin Atlantic even had a pair of them. Nowadays these stylish but deadly 'weapons' would be strictly forbidden ...



Regards, Jan

Time for some more Swedish cars. Unfortenately the Volvo was never issued in the two-colour scheme shown in the catalogue.

184 Volvo 122S (better known as 'Amazon' in Sweden).

Very nice Volvo Dinkyman. That twotone looks great. I have a whitemetal kit of an Amazon, so that will be a twotone for sure

In Canada it was marketed as the Volvo Canadian. A buddy had one in the early 1970's and it was a nice comforable car to ride in. Too bad he wrecked it by putting it in a ditch. Not his fault though as he made a slight left turn and a car behind decided to pass him at the same time. Pushed him into the ditch and wrote the car off.


His was Green. A quick google search turned this one up. It even has Red Spot Wheels.

The Dinky Toys no. 36f British Salmson 4-Seater Sports:







And its real-world prototype of 1934:



Regards, Jan

The planes on the Silver City Airways were Bristol 170 Superfreighter. I remember flying different routes on them with my Renault 4 or my wife's Sprite Mk. II. The twelve seats cabin was not presurised and very drafty. Blankets were distributed to the passengers.
The routes I used were Cherbourg - Southampton, Le Touqued Lydd and Calais - Shouthend on Sea. This last route was very convenient as at the time I used to go to Cambridge and the M 2 was not build so this avoided the driving in Kent were the roads have hardly improved since.
More about Silver City Airways here : www.silvercityairways.com/the_company.htm

                                                Dieppe July 1956.

The price was not more expansive than by ship but much faster. It must be remembered that in the late 50's the cars were lifted into the hull of the ship by a crane as shown above. My fathers car been loaded in Dieppe.



                Dinky Toys 24u Simca Aronde Elysée.

dinkycollect, drafty and I bet noisy as well...........  Is that a Bently in the load/unload process. I have seen that picture long ago and often wondered about the car. Thanks for the pictures.  dinkyboy

                                161b Anti Aircraft gun on trailer.

Thank you, Routemaster.
I found the photo of the first Amazon with painted window frames. Looks like Dinky used that specific photo for the illustartion in the catalogue. It is exactly the same angle.



This was maybe just a pre-production car. The cars that followed had not painted window frames and came in four different colour variations.

Dinkyboy,


About the car being loaded I have not a clue but I suppose that some one here will know. The cars were always loaded front first as on this picture, never in reverse.