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NOKIA SPLIT VW

It may be Finnish made, and there is some speculation that it may have been made by the Nokia company in the 1950´s, although it is not confirmed. Nokia was founded in 1865 by mr. Frederik Idestam as a woodmill in a little town called Nokia. Nokia also was chosen as the company name. ...

Published in: NOKIA

NORDDEUTSCHE PLASTIK VW BUS

The Company Norddeutsche Plastic K.G. (NP) was founded by Georg W. Allerdist, Hamburg – Stellingen, Germany. NP produced between the mid-1950’s and the early 1970s a wide range of plastic toys in 1/43, 1/24, but also cheap 1/87 give-away toys. They produced this wonderful Volkswagen type 2 flatbed ...

Published in: NORDDEUTSCHE PLASTIK

NORTH STATE TOBACCO CONSTRUCTION SPLIT VW

North State, a brand of British American Tobacco, was founded in 1931 and is a cigarette which was equipped with a shorter filter compared to many other cigarette brands. The cigarette was mainly sold in Finland but was also sold in Denmark, the Netherlands, Nazi Germany, West Germany, Switzerland a...

Published in: NORTH STATE TOBACCO CONSTRUCTION VW

NORTH STATE TOBACCO PAPER SPLIT VW

Published in: NORTH STATE TOBACCO PAPER SPLIT VW

PAYA OVAL VW LARGE 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...

Published in: PAYA OW Large Scale

PMC LOWLIGHT KARMANN GHIA VW

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, PMCs main rivals in promotional vehicle models were Banthrico, National Products, AMT, SMP, and Jo-Han. PMC's vehicle products were called "Tru Miniatures". PMC introduced its first models about 1947, around the same time as Ideal Models, which later changed its na...

Published in: PMC Product Miniature Company

PN - PHILIP NIEDERMEIER VW BUS (?)

There has been a debate about this PN (Philip Neidermeier) bus toy for many years. People collect it as a VW Bus as it has the typical ‘nose’ look. None of these PN tin toys have a VW logo so like all of the little cheap penny toys – they were inspired by cars of the time, but they...

Published in: PN - PHILIP NIEDERMEIER BS

REVELL VW BUS V2

The REVELL Company, located in Venice, California, was founded by Lewis Glaser in 1943 as a plastics molding firm called PRECISION SPECIALTIES, eventually branching into plastic toys. The name REVELL came from the French word “reveille,” meaning “new beginning.” In the early 1950s, REVELL offered it...

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REX VW BUS V1

The owner of the REX Company, based in Nürnberg, Germany, was Max Ernst. In 1933 he married the daughter of Karl Arnold and from 1935 on he was in the management of the ARNOLD Factory and in 1948 he became the managing director of ARNOLD and stayed until the mid-1970s. REX was a sister company of AR...

Published in: REX BS

RÖHRING SPLIT VW

A clay mold used to make a ceramic Split VW Sedan. The measurement of the mold is 13,5 x 8 x 9,5 cm and produces a clay VW about 9,5 cm long. Adolf Röhring (1911-1981) was one of greatest porcelain artists prewar and also after the war. He was wounded at the end of the war defending Berlin and was ...

Published in: RÖHRING

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