Matchbox Cars - Classic Toy Series Traditional Cache

This cache is part of a series on classic toys that originated no later than the 1970's. Most will have originated earlier, much earlier. I wanted to bring a little history behind these toys in the cache page and a little fun in the cache.

The earliest Matchbox cars can be traced back to 1953 when a company called Lesney Products created a small model of the Queen’s Coronation Coach.  Although this wasn’t as small as an official Matchbox car, it gave the company the needed resources to move forward with other models.

Soon after this, one of the owners of the company was presented with a unique opportunity.  His daughter’s school only allowed toys small enough to fit into a match box to be taken to school and played with.  Seeing opportunity in this problem, the company started to produce a scaled down version of the companies very first dinky car, a 1948 road roller. 

The cars were indeed small enough to fit inside a matchbox and two other models were built during this first phase, a cement truck and a dump truck.  To prove that the cars were small enough to fit into a match box, they were actually shipped with replica matchboxes and thus the Matcbbox car was born.

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