Casting variants on die-cast cars and vehicles : Dinky, Corgi and others...

Updated october 20th, 2020 after seeing another one on eBay... Having recently seen some repainted cream BEDFORD TIPPER #25M on sale as "rare items in very good condition", I post this article to help potential buyers to spot one easy difference between...

As the HALESOWEN farm trailer reviewed in a previous article, the MASSEY-HARRIS manure spreader had numerous casting versions. This agricultural model provides with a clever mechanism allowing the wheels to drive the three axles of the spreader when the...

LAND ROVER TRAILERs with ridged hubs Post updated on may 24th, 2019. A trailer again ! Of course, but this one is closely bound to the LAND ROVER that I have studied in previous posts. As its parent car, this trailer is part of the 27 series of agricultural...

When searching pictures for a future post, i came across two pictures of oddities that are worth a bit of attention. A little wink to my friend JP who made these models witch certainly were at a time planned by DINKY, obviously the parts were made to...

The principal casting variants of the model concern the following parts : the front bumper, the windscreen, the bottom of the dashboard, the driving wheel and the driver itself, the front seats, the pulley, the hubs and the rear tow hook or more precisely...

Some (!) LAND ROVER ready to the variants checking... Modification feb 2020 : justification of the use of rings to separate the hubs from the main casting. The LAND ROVER was issued to provide the British people with an equivalent of the JEEP. Launched...

New category in this blog, a little restoration tutorial with some pictures. The DINKY TOYS #27/340 LAND ROVER (which will be the topic of some future posts) is often found with a part of the front bumper missing. The front bumper has fragile extremities...

Despite the production period of this model being far shorter than the production period of the small trailer, it lasted during numerous years and therefore giving a number of casting variants. Here are the variants I have noticed on this model... As...

Always on the hunt for variants and unusual colors, I bought some time ago a SUNBEAM TALBOT (#38B) in an unusual pale green color (same as the #38E ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY). This car, sadly having lost one of its headlamps, bears a decal on the tonneau, that...

LIST OF THE FACTORY DRAWINGS RELATED TO THE BEDFORDS N° DESCRIPTION DATE Models concerned 25M 410 25V 252 25W 411 521 921 409 582 982 12835 BEDFORD TRUCK ASSEMBLY 27/8/ 1948 x 12836 BEDFORD –TRUCK BODY 23/2/ 1948 x 12839 WINDOW FOR BEDFORD REFUSE WAGON...