Forty Years of Airfix Toys

Forty Years of Airfix Toys
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Publisher : The Crowood Press
Total Pages : 641
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ISBN-10 : 9781785005367
ISBN-13 : 1785005367
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Book Synopsis Forty Years of Airfix Toys by : Jeremy Brook

Download or read book Forty Years of Airfix Toys written by Jeremy Brook and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airfix acquired the first plastic injection moulding machine in the U.K. in the mid 1940's and was soon manufacturing vast numbers of plastic toys. By 1981, when Airfix's financial woes led to takeover and the end of all production save for plastic model kits, it had made a wide variety of toys, games, arts, crafts, building sets, racing sets, model trains and even Meccano and Dinky toys. Profusely illustrated with over three hundred photographs, Forty Years of Airfix Toys gives the full history of the Airfix toy range including year-by-year listings of all the toys sold by Airfix; logs and packaging; Airfix's magazines and a full listing of Airfix pattern numbers. It is a comprehensive guide to the history of the toys produced by the iconic brand Airfix.


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