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The Rise and Fall of Matchbox’s Toy-Car Empire
The size of the Lesney workforce and its location in east London meant that there were a few cheeky liberties taken here and ...
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Most Valuable Vintage Matchbox Cars Worth 100 Times Their Original Price
Leslie and Rodney Smith started their toy company, Lesney Products ... O’Dell’s daughter was told that only toys small enough to fit inside a matchbox could be brought to school, the rest ...
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I have Britain’s biggest collection of Matchbox toy cars – now I’m selling them for tens of THOUSANDS of pounds
"I think I have almost every single car that Matchbox put out between 1953 and 1969," he said. The toys were first introduced by Lesney Products in 1953 and dominated the market until Hot Wheels ...