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    Forty Years of Airfix Toys

    By Jeremy Brook

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrowood
    Release dateApr 9, 2019
    ISBN9781785005367
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    Forty Years of Airfix Toys
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    Jeremy Brook

    Jeremy Brook was born in 1950 and made his first Airfix kit about eight years later. Passionate about Airfix, he lives in Wiltshire where he runs the Airfix Collectors' Club and produces the Club's journal, Constant Scale. Jeremy Brook is also Honorary Archivist for Airfix at Hornby Hobbies Ltd. In 2015 he wrote his first book on Airfix, "60 Years of Airfix Models", about the world famous plastic construction kits.

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