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The company moved away from manufacturing toys in the Second World War. Instead they produced goods to help the war effort such as wooden instrument cases, cases for the barrels of anti-aircraft guns, hospital beds and electrical coils and starters. [2] The box cover of a 1930 Jigsaw of Cunard's RMS Aquitania made by the Chad Valley company
Urban vinyl is a type of designer toy, featuring action figures in particular which are usually made of vinyl.Although the term is sometimes used interchangeably with the term designer toy, [6] it is more accurately used as a modifier: not all designer toys can be considered urban vinyl, while urban vinyl figures are necessarily designer toys, by virtue of how they are produced.
Vivid Imaginations was founded in 1992 by former Matchbox Toys UK managing director Nick Austin and Finance Director Alan Bennie, [8] with a loan of £380,000 from friends. [9] The annual company turnover was £9.8 m in its first year and increased to over £20 m in 1996. [ 8 ]
Back in 1971, it had acquired non-UK rights when it bought Meccano in France from the receivers of another British toy group, Tri-ang. Palitoy effectively ceased to be an independent business in 1984 when its parent company, CPG, part of General Mills, closed its entire design department leaving it effectively just a sales and marketing operation.
He was the first American to receive the I.D.I.O.T. (International Designer and Inventor of Toys) at the UK Toy Inventors’ Dinner at the London Toy Fair in 1993. [citation needed] In addition to Goldfarb's career inventing toys, he worked with Hank Saperstein to design and manufacture toy premiums for Kellogg's Cereal.
James Jarvis (born London, 1970) is a British illustrator and toy designer, a pioneer of the soft vinyl designer toy revolution. Jarvis began his career as a designer for the fashion company Silas. He created characters at his own company, Amos Toys, each character with its own personality and background world. He now works as a freelance ...