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Lesney was founded on 19 January 1947 as an industrial die-casting company by Leslie Smith (6 March 1918 - 26 May 2005) and Rodney Smith (26 August 1917 - 20 July 2013). The name "Lesney" was an acronym from both partners' (who were not related by blood) names. They had been school friends and served together in the Royal Navy during World War II.
matchbox.com. Matchbox is a toy brand which was introduced by Lesney Products in 1953, and is now owned by Mattel, Inc, which purchased the brand in 1997. The brand was given its name because the original die-cast "Matchbox" toys were sold in boxes similar to those in which matches were sold. The brand grew to encompass a broad range of toys ...
Matchbox (1980s–1997) Dinky Toys was the brand name for a range of die-cast zamak zinc alloy scale model vehicles, traffic lights, and road signs produced by British toy company Meccano Ltd. They were made in England from 1934 to 1979, at a factory in Binns Road in Liverpool . Dinky Toys were among the most popular die-cast vehicles ever made ...
Recently LCD Model has been building their own line of scale models including 1:26, 1:72, and 1:18 scales. Lectricar Racing – early era electric radio-controlled cars [54] Legend – 1:43 scale diecast, name used first with JouefEvolution, then by Universal Hobbies. Lego – Matchbox sized cars in the late 1950s through the 1960s [55]
Revell Plastics GmbH. (1956–2006) Website. revell.com. Revell GmbH is an American-origin manufacturer of plastic scale models, currently based in Bünde, Germany. The original Revell company merged with Monogram in 1986, becoming "Revell-Monogram". The business operated until 2007, when American Revell was purchased by Hobbico, while the ...
Mattel (1989–95) Corgi Classics Ltd. (1995–2008) [ 1] Website. corgi.co.uk. Corgi Toys ( trademark) is the brand name of a range of die-cast toy vehicles created by Mettoy and currently owned by Hornby, [ 2] after it acquired the Corgi Classics Limited Company in 2008.
Lesney Products. (1977–82) Powertrack is the brand name for the Matchbox 's slot car sets. Introduced in the late 1970s by Lesney Products Ltd, Powertrack models differed from other slot car sets because the cars could be seen in the dark as the cars had headlights. Matchbox's H0/00 (approx. 1:64) cars were smaller than Scalextric 1:32-scale ...
The Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine (sometimes called the Machine Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine or MENACE) was a mechanical computer made from 304 matchboxes designed and built by artificial intelligence researcher Donald Michie in 1961. It was designed to play human opponents in games of noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) by ...