VINTAGE CORGI TOYS NO 464-COMMER 3/4 CHASSIS CITY POLICE VAN 1966

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VINTAGE CORGI TOYS NO 464-COMMER 3/4 CHASSIS CITY POLICE VAN 1966
Original vintage 1966 Corgi Commer City Police Van #464 Blue 3/4 ton chassis with roof siren light.  Die cast vehicle manufactured in Great Britain by Corgi Toys.
Nice condition.
Van shows paint loss and light scratches consistent with age.
Battery compartment clean.  I do not believe the siren light is functional but not 100% sure.
A LITTLE HISTORY...
Corgi Toys is the name of a range of die-cast toy vehicles produced by Mettoy Playcraft Ltd. in the United Kingdom.
The Mettoy (Metal Toy) company was founded in 1933 by German émigré Philip Ullmann in Northampton, England, where he was later joined by South African-born German Arthur Katz, who had previously worked for Ullmann at his toy company Tipp and Co of Nuremberg. After dabbling for some years in the model car market, they decided to produce a range of diecast toy vehicles as competition to Meccano's Dinky Toys model vehicles, which had dominated the British market for many years. Corgi Toys were introduced in the UK in July 1956 and were manufactured in Swansea, Wales, for 27 years before the company went into liquidation. A management buy-out re-formed the company as Corgi Toys Limited in March 1984. In 1989, the management sold the Corgi brand to Mattel and the factory was retained under the name of Microlink Industries Ltd. In 1995, Corgi regained its independence as a new company, Corgi Classics Limited, and moved to new premises in Leicester.
The range was exported worldwide and sold in large numbers. Some of the best known and most popular models were of cars made famous in film and television such as the Batmobile, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 – which remains the largest selling toy car ever produced.
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