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Chad Valley – Die-cast cars and buses made in England since the 1920s. Che Zhi – Chinese Brand of diecast cars, usually 1:32 scale. Chibi – Plastic copies of Dinky Supertoys made in Argentina [16] CF - Hong Kong brand copy to Tomica models. Chrono – 1:18 scale cars, mostly of British marques from the 1960s and 1970s. Made in China.
By 1965, Aurora had many automobile kits in 1:32 "slot car" scale including the Triumph TR3, MG-TD, Jaguar XK120, Austin-Healey 3000, Alfa Romeo GT convertible, Mercedes-Benz 300 SL convertible, 1958 Ford "Squarebird" Thunderbird, the American Cunningham, and a few Indianapolis 500 winners, like the Monroe Special, and the Fuel Injection Special.
Later, plastic as well as die-cast toys were identified with both names as "Tootsietoy-Strombecker". The name Tootsietoy was often applied to larger, but fairly realistic plastic cars and trucks through the 1990s, but some die-cast were also still made like the Hardbody series in Matchbox size and slightly larger than 1:43 scale.
In the 1980s and 1990s, car and trucks were well proportioned and had interesting features, but models were a bit too heavy on details that could have been rendered more delicately or accurately. Chrome spears along the sides of 1950s cars, for example, were sometimes too thick and unrealistically embedded in grooves in the die-cast body.
Founded by Jack and May Li in 1999, [1] Jada's first toy was a 1:24 scale die-cast 1953 Chevrolet tow truck, part of their Thunder Crusher line.Though the Chevrolet tow truck toy and other lines proved successful, the company remained in obscurity until the introduction of the urban-themed DUB City brand. [2]
1:65: 4.689 mm Ships, die-cast cars. Similar to 1:64. 1:64: 4.763 mm Ships, die-cast cars. Matchbox and Hot Wheels use this scale to describe their vehicles, although the actual scale of the individual models varies from 1:55 to beyond 1:100. Same as S Scale. Also called 3 ⁄ 16 in. scale. Known as 25 mm figure scale in wargaming circles. [12 ...