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Matchbox Series

1953 -

1955: "Matchbox Miniature Models, a Moko-Lesney Product". 18 models listed. [image info]

1957: b&w re-create of the colour 1957 fold-out product sheet. 42 models listed [image info]

1959: Lesney catalogue cover: 72 Matchbox models listed, plus accessories and Models of Yesteryear [prototype info]

1972: Front cover of "Lesney Matchbox 1-75 Series Diecasts", by Maurice A. Hammond [image info]

1989: Front cover of "Collecting Matchbox Diecast Toys, The Start Forty Years" ISBN 0951088513, showing a "1-75" Matchbox dealer brandish stand [image info]

Lesney Products' Matchbox Series range of small diecast vehicles appeared in 1953, and were one of the classic ranges of "playground, carpet, garden and sandpit" toys. With no pretence at fifty-fifty attempting to use a common scale, Matchbox toys were individually sized to fit a matchbox, and were sold in matchbox-styled packaging.

Even though these were very much marketed as unproblematic toys rather than models, the level of detailing specific to the original vehicle was pretty impressive, and the earliest-released models are peculiarly revered for their amuse and attractiveness.

1956 "Matchbox Series" artwork, from the catalogue comprehend

The "one-75" Series

The range of "playground and sandpit" toy vehicles became a runaway success, and later the initial launch in 1953 of three models, grew to eighteen in 1955, seventy-two in 1959, and finally lxx-5 in 19xx. Seventy-five was considered a reasonable upper limit to the number of models that a retailer could exist asked to handle, and not having a range in the hundreds meant that all the vehicles could exist fairly distinctive, and brand it easier for the customer to succumb to an impulse buy without being confused by an overwhelming degree of choice.

At seventy-five models, the range "froze", with newcomers to the 1-75 Serial" displacing older models. For retailers, this had the advantage that the existing signal-of-auction display stands (with unlettered spaces marked one-75) didn't need to be changed when the range changed.

Scale

The Matchbox range defiantly ignored any concept of unified scale, or an obvious unified theme, as typified by the initial three models, a diesel fuel roller, a dumper truck and ... a static cement mixer (why a cement mixer, nobody knows, but it appeared to be perfectly scaled for approximate 0, and consequently appears on a lot of judge 0 model railway layouts). The requirement that all models be roughly the aforementioned size meant that a Matchbox double decker bus was effectually the same size equally a single-seater racecar (or a cement mixer!).

The 1959 range:

We've taken these scans from the 1959 catalogue, every bit representative of the early on range – information technology'due south still only about six years afterward the initial launch, but has a range that well-nigh reaches the magical "75" (72). Some models had already been changed by this point – the #ane Diesel Road Roller at present had more than modernistic slanted front roof supports, and the "Caterpillar Inc." vehicles had different engine cowlings (D4 rather than D2?)

i – Diesel Road Roller, green
2 – Muir Hill Dumper, dark-green and ruby-red
iii – Cement Mixer, blue

4 – Massey Harris Tractor, red
5 – Red Double-Decker Bus, "Player's Please"
6-B – Euclid Quarry Truck, yellowish
7 – Horse-Drawn Milk Float, red
8-B – Caterpillar (D4?) Tractor, xanthous
9 – Dennis Fire Engine (listed as "Fire Escape"), red
10 – Scammell Scarab Mechanical Horse, red cab
11 – Road Petrol Tanker, red
12 – Land Rover (with towbar)
thirteen – Fordson Thames Wreck Truck, crane
14 – Daimler Ambulance, Reddish Cross, cream
15 – Prime Mover 6-wheeler truck cab, red
sixteen – Atlantic Vehicle Transporter Trailer, orange
17 – Bedford Removals Van, "Matchbox Removals Service", green
18 – Caterpillar (D4?) Bulldozer, yellow with dark-green tracks

19 – MG MGA Sports Auto, white
20 – ERF Heavy Lorry, "Ever Ready for Life!", blue
21 – Bedford Duple Long-Distance Luxury Bus, "London to Glasgow", green
22 – Vauxhall Cresta automobile, pale pink
23-B – Berkeley Condescending Caravan, yellowish-light-green
24 – Weatherill Hydraulic Excavator, orange
25 – Bedford 12 cwt Van, "Dunlop", blue
26 – Foden Cement Mixer Lorry, orange
27 – Bedford Depression Loader Articulated Lorry, green cab
28 – Ford Thames Compressor Lorry, orange
29 – Bedford Milk Delivery Van, foam
30 – Ford Prefect auto, with towbar
31 – American Ford Customline Station Carriage ( "Country Sedan"), yellow
32 – Jaguar XK140 Fixed-Caput Coupé, off-white
33 – Ford Zodiac motorcar with Towbar, dark-green
34 – Volkswagen Microvan, "Matchbox International Express" blue
35 – ERF Marshall Horse Box Mk.7, red cab
36 – Austin A50, greenish
37 – Karrier Bantam Coca-Cola bottle lorry, even load
38 – Karrier Bantam Refuse Truck, "Cleansing Department", grey
39 – Ford Zodiac Convertible automobile, with Towbar
twoscore – Bedford 7-Ton Tipper, red cab
41 – D-Blazon Jaguar racing car, green
42 – Bedford Van, "Evening News", "Kickoff With The News", yellow
43 – Hillman Minx Mk.2 motorcar, two-tone calorie-free blue and grey
44 – Rolls-Royce Silver Deject, silverish
45 – Vauxhall Victor car, yellow
46 – Morris Minor car, dark light-green
47 – Trojan 1-Ton Van, "Brooke Bail", carmine
48 – Fenn & Woods Falling star Sportsman Sports Boat on Trailer, blue and wood-event
49 – U.s. Army M3 Half-Runway Personnel Carrier, green
50 – Commer Pickup Truck, buff
51 – Albion Lorry, "Blue Circle", "Portland Cement", xanthous
52 – Maserati 4CLT single-seater racing car, cherry
53 – Aston-Martin DB2/iv Mk I car, metallic calorie-free dark-green
54 – Alvis Saracen Half dozen-Wheeled Personnel carrier, green
55 – US Army DUKW-353 "Duck" Amphibious Vehicle, dark-green
56 – Ruddy London Trolleybus, "Beverage Peardrax Sweet Sparkling"
57 – Matchbox No.57, Wolseley 1500 car, pale green
58 – AEC Motorcoach, "British European Airways" (BEA), blue
59 – Ford Van, "Vocaliser", dark-green
60 – Morris Commercial J2 Pickup Truck, "Builders Supply Visitor", blue
61 – British Regular army Daimler Ferret Mk1 Armoured Lookout Auto, green
62 – British Army AEC Militant ("Milly") Full general Service Lorry, green
63 – Ford 3 Ton 4×4 Service Ambulance, Cherry-red Cross, green
64 – Scammell Army Breakdown Truck, green
65 – Jaguar iii.4 litre Sedan, blue
66 – Citroën DS19 machine, yellow
67 – British Army Alvis FV601 Saladin half dozen-wheeled armoured machine, green
68 – British Army Austin Mark II Radio Truck, green
69 – Commer thirty cwt Van, "Nestle's", cerise
70 – Ford Thames Estate Machine, two-tone blood-red and white
71 – British Army Austin 200-Gallon Water Truck, light-green
72 – Fordson Major Tractor, blue

Lledo

Lesney went bust in 1982, afterwards which Jack Odell came out of retirement, bought some of the more than "retro" Matchbox moulds and produced a new Days Gone range under the name Lledo.

In the museum

Every bit of 2015, the museum has ii displays of Lesney Matchbox diecast vehicles, property around 225 pieces in total: around lxx-5 "Models of Yesteryear" pieces in a chiffonier in Arch 4, and around another hundred and fifty Matchbox vehicles in a display space underneath the 00-gauge model railway layout in Arch Three.

External links

The Matchbox Social club (matchboxclub.com)
"Lesney's Matchbox series – One of the all-time toy cars of all time", past Milica Sterjova (wallswithstories.com)
"Threescore years of Matchbox cars", by Chris Knapman (telegraph.co.u.k.)
The human who fabricated the offset adolescent Matchbox toy actually made information technology for his DAUGHTER (dailymail.co.uk)

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