Displaying items by tag: 161to195mm

JNF NEUHIERL US ZONE SPLIT VW IN-35

JNF was founded in 1920 by Joseph Neuhierl in Fürth, Germany. The company name, JNF, is formed out of the first letters of his name and the town of Fürth. In WWII, the company had to produce for warfare, like many other toy companies. In 1945, the US Army therefore confiscated all production facilit...

JNF STRUXY VW BUS

JNF was founded in 1920 by Joseph Neuhierl in Fürth, Germany. The company name is formed out of the first letters of his name and the town of Fürth. In the war, the company had to produce for warfare (like many (toy) companies). In 1945, the US Army therefore confiscated all production facilities. P...
Published in: JNF STRUXY

JYESA VW BUS

JYESA ( Juguetes y Estuches SA) was founded in 1936 in Ibi Alicante, Spain, by Manuel Pico, an ex-employee of Hermanos Payá. They used the brandnames JYE or JYESA. Initially they produced tin toys, but in the early 1950's they transformed into producing injection mould plastic toys.  ...
Published in: JYESA BS

LAMO LEKER VW BUS

A VW Bus that is made of tin lithograph and is basically a licensed copy of the German GÖSO VW Bus model. This VW Bus was produced by LAMO ( Larsen og Mortensen ), Stavanger, Norway in 1956. After WWII there were very strict import regulations in Norway (1945-1960). The country was poor and you wer...
Published in: LAMO LEKER

LEHA OVAL VW

Plastic body with cut out windows and a red plastic driver. Black plastic chassis with an “X” molding mark and stamped LEHA. Plastic bumpers and a friction motor. Red as well as black rubbers wheels were used. There were 2 different chassis variations: one covered the friction motor completely, the ...
Published in: LEHA

LORENZ OVAL VW

Plastic body with cut out windows and nice details of front and rear hood, door seams and rear oval window with air louvers. Plastic interior with people inside (females and in later versions men with caps). Plastic chassis with friction motor (although a keyhole without function is present), wheels...
Published in: LORENZ

LS OVAL VW

The constructed Oval Window Volkswagen model was made by a professional toy modeler in the late 1950s, most probably a very early release of LS models. LS manufactured model kits of cars, planes, motorbikes and guns from the 1950's (??) until their bankrupcy in 1992. As from the 1960'...
Published in: LS

MEIWA KOGYO - MKK VW BUS

MEIWA KOGYO Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan, is the manufacturer and used a diamond shaped logo with MKK in the center.  The MKK VW Bus is nicely detailed with a tin body made of four main panels. The sides and roof are all one piece, then a nose panel, rear panel and chassis. Other  par...

MODERN TOYS - MASUDAYA OVAL VW V1

MASUDAYA, founded in 1928, Japan, was the manufacturer of this Volkswagen Oval Window Sedan toy. It was thought to be a better idea, after the post WWII period, to sell the Japanese produced MASUDAYA toys for the USA market under the name of MODERN TOYS. The MODERN TOYS VW has a tin body with cut ou...

MODERN TOYS - MASUDAYA OVAL VW V2

MASUDAYA founded in 1928, Japan, was the manufacturer of this Volkswagen Oval Window toy. It was a better idea after the post war period to market the Japanese MASUDAYA toys in the USA under the name of MODERN TOYS. The VW has a tin body with cut out windows and very good details of front and rear h...

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