Displaying items by tag: 111to160mm

MINIFLEX VW BUS

A two piece plastic body with cut out windows and a removable plastic chassis. Wheels are plastic pressed on steel axles. Bumpers, headlights and window inserts are silver plated plastic. It has a small electric motor and takes one C cell battery. Small brass tab on the bottom is a switch which turn...
Published in: MINIFLEX

MODELLO VW BUS

A three piece plastic VW Kombi Bus with cut out windows. There is a clear plastic top section and a blue plastic middle and lower sections. The chassis has ribbed reinforcing lines and a grey center plastic part. There are grey plastic wheels mounted on metal axles and attached to the chassis. There...
Published in: MODELLO

MODERN TOYS - MASUDAYA SPLIT VW

MASUDAYA, founded in 1928, Japan, was the manufacturer of this Volkswagen Split Window toy. It was a better idea, after the post WWII period, to market the Japanese MASUDAYA toys in the USA under the name of MODERN TOYS. The MODERN TOYS Split Window VW had a tin plate body with cut out windows...

MSB (MECHANISCHE SPIELWAREN BRANDENBURG VEB) VW BUS

In the former East German town of Brandenburg, the first toy producers started already in the 1880‘s.  Until 1945 the town inhabited several toy companies, among which the Patentwerk Ernst Paul Lehmann,  Lineol, Gundka, Oro, Ger-Ton and Brennabor. In 1948 the Lehmann Company and Lineol wer...
Published in: MSB

NFIC VW BUS V1

NFIC, located in Hong Kong, was one of the Hong Kong producers who really put effort in the quality of their products. Many toys came in two-tone colors. Sometimes they also offered toys under the label of National Toys (Matchbox-copies). Plastic body of a VW Transporter Bus with cut out windows an...
Published in: NFIC

OK VW BUS

KADER Industrial Company Limited, located in North Point, Hong Kong, was founded by Mr. Ting Hsiung-chao in 1948. Mr. H.C. Ting believed that success is built upon diligence and a dictum that nothing short of perfection was acceptable. KADER’s products carried the “OK” logo, a trademark devised by M...
Published in: OK

OKYASU E.O VW BUS

All models have details indicating a 1963 to 1967 production date VW Bus, but were probably produced for several years after that.  All Buses are Kombi versions with cargo doors indicated on both sides or double door Kombi’s. Civil versions are much less common than the emergency vehicles theme...
Published in: OKYASU E.O

PAYA OVAL VW MEDIUM SCALE

Rafael Paya Pico, a local tinsmith, started in the year 1902 a factory in Ibi, Alicante, for sheet products, metal foundry and repair of music instruments. In 1906, his sons Pascual, Emilio and Vicente started producing metal toys. In 1905 they founded the company Paya Hermanos (PH). During the Span...

PILOTO VW BUS

A two piece plastic body with cut out windows. The bumpers and headlights are glued onto the body. The side panels have Corpo Bombeiro (Fire truck) printed on them and the inside has the following raised print in a circle; IND. BRASILEIRA, MARCA REGIS. This is around a horizontal diamond shape above...
Published in: PILOTO

PLASTY VW BUS

PLASTY, began operation in late 1948 and produced mainly plastic playthings. Their slogan, at the time, was "toys at reasonable prices." The founders of the firm, Hellmut Fiedler (1909-1973) and Friedrich Podey (1907-1984), had been friends since their apprenticeship at the Rheinischen Gummi-und Cel...
Published in: PLASTY

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