Some of the first Dinky Toys ever made have fetched almost £50,000 at auction. Two boxes containing 12 rare delivery vans from the firm's infancy in 1933 were snapped up by a private collector. The ...

A tiny Dinky Toy van which is 'one of the rarest ever made' is on auction for thousands of pounds. The 3.25 inch long grey and blue Monks & Crane van, made between 1954 and 1960, is on sale for £7,000 ...

There’s model-car collecting, and then there’s people like Ron van der Hoort. Over the span of 35 years, give or take a few months, he put together what is believed to be one of the largest Dinky Toys ...

150 years after the birth of one of the world's most celebrated toy creators, Google has paid tribute to Mr Hornby with a nostalgic doodle featuring toy trains. Frank Hornby, the inventor of Hornby ...

Trading in Dinky die-cast toys (made from 1935 to 1979 by the same company that gave us Meccano and Hornby trains) operates pretty much like any other stockmarket, except on a smaller scale. 1:48 ...

A classic toy car has sold on eBay for almost £1,000 after inspiring a mini bidding war from 29 collectors. The Dinky Toy Oldsmobile fetched £992 when it sold on the online auction site earlier this ...

Almost 500 rare Dinky toys and other objects rescued from the Meccano headquarters before it closed 30 years ago will go under the auctioneer's hammer next month. Many of the items have never been ...

A collection of model Dinky Toys cars accumulated over 35 years have been sold for a staggering £350,000. The rare set of around 1,600 figures toy vehicles had been amassed by Dutch collector Robert ...

Fans of the Liverpool-born inventor of Meccano and Hornby model railways were today marking what would have been his 150th birthday. Frank Hornby, who became MP for Everton in 1931, was honoured by ...