Description
About the Author
Andrew Ralston received his first Dinky Toy car, a Riley, when he was about five years old, and ever since has been passionately interested in anything to do with cars. He has built up an extensive collection of models, with a preference for the more unusual items, and has written many articles on the subject for magazines in Britain and the USA. Educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford, Andrew is a teacher by profession and has also published numerous textbooks on the English language. He lives in Glasgow with his wife, Hazel, and daughter, Miranda.
Reviews
This book showcases postwar Japanese-built tinplate cars based on prototypes from all around the world. The book features some of the rarest models from a private collection. The book gives history and background for all these toys. This is a book for specialist collectors and all of those with an interest in vintage toys.- Model Auto Review. This book is a general collectors guide to classic Tinplate toy cars from the 50s and 60s made in Japan. It covers cars from a classic era of tinplate toy cars and covers all the major companies and countries there were sold in. The book shows the most known and collectables of the time period. The book has great pictures and lots of detailing information. This book brought back lots of memories to me as a kid getting a few of the cars shown in the book as birthday and or Christmas gifts from my family. The book may have a limited audience but I for one loved it! I recommend this book to everyone with an interest in tinplate cars from Japan and also all of those who, like me, was a kid during the 50s or 60s.- IMPS/USA Journal. It is time to reminisce with this book. It is not only full-size cars that have moved on since your childhood.- Practical Classics. Tinplate cars were a budget option in many countries - simple and crude, like Britains GTP toys. In Japan, however, the post-war production went for details, quality and export potential. Working from an extensive private collection, the beauty and scale of these glamorous toys is captured well - one can only imagine how many children really got to play with them during this era - with fascinating stories about the diverse firms manufacturing them As a collectors guide, it is soon apparent that this is no cheap hobby, and you will be left wanting to hold those friction-powered models. Delightful. - Classic Car Weekly.Ten years ago, this book appeared for the first time and it has now been reprinted. The format is slightly smaller, but the content is the same and gives a broad overview of models from the fifties and sixties. - Auto in Miniature. Sister title to the author's Diecast Toys book, and like that one, reprinted in 2017. This features some rare toys, and all belonging to New Yorker, Bruce Sterling, who is recognised as one of the world's top collectors in this field. A complete guide. - TKC. Veloce's guide features the cream of New Yorker, Bruce Stirling's unrivalled collection including some exceedingly rare examples. The pictures are excellent throughout and the accompanying text knowledgeable and interesting. The majority of models represent American cars and trucks, although British and European vehicles also feature. The proportions of most appear accurate and well detailed. An indication of prices is provided, though it's only a guide. The widespread use of plastic and increasingly stringent health & safety legislation virtually killed the tinplate toy market by the mid-Sixties, but as adult collectible models they are still wonderful. Their variety and quality will surprise you! - Classic American.
Book Information
ISBN 9781787111202
Author Andrew Ralston
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Veloce
Publisher David & Charles