Before computers this was some really first class serious art and engineering! Hats off to these craftsmen!

@1olddirtroad

8 ай бұрын

I have the models of yesteryear. Quality

Lol at 1:30 , car down This is very awesome to see how these classic matchbox cars were produced, so much better then the ones we have today

@StephanSandiares

5 жыл бұрын

"I'm freeeee!!!"

@igameidoresearchtoo6511

5 жыл бұрын

your right toys today are s**t

@sifirid

4 жыл бұрын

BuschWhacker Reviews I have this exact one still in box. Red

@stepaushi

3 жыл бұрын

@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 you're

@connormeechan5784

3 жыл бұрын

Was a car body on top of a body by the looks of it

Miss the old Matchbox cars. Matchbox cars today isn't good as when they are manufactured in UK.

@petergoodwin2465

3 жыл бұрын

@Oliver Viehland Australia has nothing but Chinese junk, looks crap and is crap. Just like everything from China, best to pay a little more and buy western made but that's nearly impossible these days.

@honestguy7764

3 жыл бұрын

Peter Goodwin Even Siku, another top notch german manufacturer is made in china now altough with quality, same as when matchbox moved the production to Macau

@f.mitterrand

3 жыл бұрын

Its bc its owned by mattel now, not by lesney anymore :'(

@nickyum4022

3 жыл бұрын

I mean why are the matchbox cars back then more detailed than the ones now?

@f.mitterrand

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickyum4022 back then they actually cared for the toys they make, now all they care about is money.. That's why they don't care about the details anymore

I recently picked up about 20 of these old 1960s cars at a thrift store and they are AWESOME !!!!!! Especially like the 2 Dump trucks with working hydraulics. This video is SO COOL too ........ LOVE the little spinning cars getting painted and the HIP MAN music.

I have an example of that exact model they are designing in the first half hahaha

@bladder1010

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@PU8698

3 жыл бұрын

I have the 2 tone green one seen at the very beginning. Edit: Just to add, the green car has been with us since new. It was my dads Toy car. it's still in decent shape, just some minor paint chips and scratches.

@G0RSHK0V

3 жыл бұрын

I have this yellow truck 0:06

@bladder1010

3 жыл бұрын

We should all start a club.

@Eagerston

3 жыл бұрын

Nostalgic

It’s hard to believe matchbox cars came from a working class factory in Hackney once upon a time, when today Hackney is a gentrified paradise for the rich. I just wished a wealthy british entrepreneur would invest in die-cast toy cars today, and make them in Britain to revive our forgotten toy industry. Matchbox cars, from the design phase to completion was a team effort. The skills involved, and the passion to make a quality British toy made me proud when I was a child in the 70s, and saw Made in Gt Britain or Made in England as well embossed on the toy cars I use to own all those years ago. Nowadays, everything is made in China and it doesn’t feel the same.

@michaelquinones-lx6ks

9 ай бұрын

@lg5819 As an American I hear you, It's same here in the U.S. too, Theres only two toy companies left, HASBRO and MATTEL. the little and mid sized toy companies have either merged out of existence or just went bust.

@kjamison5951

8 ай бұрын

It’s unlikely to happen and it’s down to cost. Setting up a factory and staffing it at minimum wage for skilled operators rising to engineers in the design department would result in expensive for cast models. Even producing the parts elsewhere and assembling them in the UK is costly per unit. And there’s the attitude towards this type of work from people today. Not everyone is happy to have a repetitive job. Where would it be located?

Still have most of mine, at least the ones my little brother didn't lose after I went to college! Still have the Hoveringham tipper and that large crane pictured; also several British military vehicles, including Saracen and Saladin. Every time my grandparents came to visit they would bring me one. Can remember that clearly even though was 50+ years ago

@flipflopsguy8868

3 жыл бұрын

Those dang siblings, they got all my original collection of match box and hot wheels from the the beginning of both, those carriers full you know,the folding suitcase one of matchbox with the blue plastic sliding holders and about four big hot wheels ones shaped like wheels ! Damn it !

I'm lucky. I have a little collection with around 100 models from the sixtees and early seventees😁

@drakea.5816

3 жыл бұрын

That's cool. Worth a small fortune one of these days.

@pizzapixel9148

3 жыл бұрын

That's cool

@oscarosullivan4513

2 жыл бұрын

How good is the quality vs todays models

They were great toy cars. I loved them.

All i can say is....Wow!!!

My oldest Matchbox toy from 1969 is Y-5 Peugeot 1907. Very good quality metal toy. I see on this short movie (here 1:38) the same wheels used in my Peugeot 1907 🤗😲😏😀

@flipflopsguy8868

3 жыл бұрын

Mine is #19 in the series LOTUS RACE CAR #3 minus the tires and driver i did love this car and after all I was only five years old. I had a lot more before HOT WHEELS came along and well I did have three younger brothers.

I set fire to the ones from the 2000's that I have found but I found some from the 60's which I will keep

@boneyween

3 жыл бұрын

lmao

Brilliant footage intresting to see how they were made

Its nice to the production inside a matchbox factory....really exciting.

@victoraguilarl3605

3 жыл бұрын

Yep

@oscarosullivan4513

2 жыл бұрын

What was the matchbox factory

Man what an amazing thing to watch!🌟💯

I miss my vintage Matchbox cars, those Ford Model T models to be exact.

WOW I'd have loved to work there.

@thevozhd9846

3 жыл бұрын

The pay would've been ridiculously low..... You would starve....

@johnnymichael1804

3 жыл бұрын

@@thevozhd9846 actually no. See, we didn't have MASSIVE inflation back then. People could work jobs like that and still live relatively comfortably. Of course they didn't have Netflix subscriptions. IPhone plans. Hulu and Disney plus. And they probably didn't drink $10 Starbucks coffees everyday, either.

You know lately I’ve been seeing a lot of old videos on KZread. 🤔 where do they all come from ?

0:19 omg i have one of this since i was a kid and i didnt even knew what i had, i dndt even knew thet toy was so old

Shame the video ended abruptly, I was enjoying that. I've got the set of those models of yesteryear. I was going to a shop near Greenwich park, and they were £5.00 each, I wanted 8, so took £40 with me, cycled from Brockley se4, and lost all the money on the way, and didn't realise until I got to the shop! This was the 1980s by the way, so £40 to me was a lot.I was gutted losing that much!

@spacecadet7113

4 жыл бұрын

@@DAquingil Gil, thanks. You commented on the End just 16 hours ago. _ I just saw this. - THANKS, - Your a genius. - Ohio.

@spacecadet7113

4 жыл бұрын

Mark, just saw that Mr. Gil sent us all a bit of priceless information. - If you find the whole video. Please respond back to him, I would like to know how it turned out. - I am going to search for it right now. Best regards. - Ohio.

Toys back in the day is literally made by bare hands and made out of pure iron or metal unlike today's plastic fragile toy cars.

@mr.tropical7116

3 жыл бұрын

No I’m pretty sure they are made by human hands

@jothishprabu8

3 жыл бұрын

*bare hands lmao

@TherealLorinser

3 жыл бұрын

@@jothishprabu8 yeah I'll fix it now hahha

When you watch this old videos, you get nostalgic, these old models are far far better quality then today stuff. Only premium brands can achieve quality those who make smaller numbers of 1000-3000 thousand per model.

1:48 The Pat & Mat Convertible.

Who would have thought this would be a million dollar industry! 😁😍👍

Awesome!!

I've got for of them in their boxes!

@lefterisgeorgiou4424

3 жыл бұрын

Four...

You upload this.... but not the whole thing... why?

@GunsNGames1

3 жыл бұрын

British Pathe what do you expect

I remember a tv commercial ending 70s saying _Matchbox 75 models,_ this British Pathé footage is lovely, amazing, when things were made throw a mould thanks to a man hability, and not throw a computer software. ©1965/2021 Greetings to all United Kingdomians watchers. 🐵 Cristian, Santiago de Chile, SouthAmerica.

I have more than a thousand. Some are my own from childhood and some I bought with the intention to refurbish them. I’ve had some success and recreated boxes for a new collector at a reduced price but I have a long way to go.

Great film, these classic diecast cars just have something that modern diecast is lacking, perhaps being designed by Humans verses a CAD Computer ?

@cappuccinoowl559

3 жыл бұрын

No, quality fell because of companies doing what they want to save money while producing more.

The end feels like there is a comedic catch to it

I want to collect them all now

Magical era

Excelente

So old and cool:)

I want one of these

Hmm, i would love to have these

very cool! I wonder how they make them now

@igameidoresearchtoo6511

5 жыл бұрын

they get a mold BAM they crush plastic into it and BAM again cut the extra plastic and KABOOM adds wheels and heres the toy all from a factory

@gamalat122

3 жыл бұрын

Watch china pathe

Yea me too wish hot wheels would give us a look at how they make their cars

I used to buy one every week with my pocket money 1/6d each....

Have 1 Lesney parkard landaulet 1912 The red antique car in this video

Вот когда было качество и детям радость ! Сейчас всё гонят из Китая .

Lovely 💐😝

Bonito carros

❤fábrica de sonhos

Great video! Can we use it to create a Portuguese version?

Muuuuuch better than nowadays haha

So this is how little cars are made.

Yo amo los carritos a escala.

I had a box set of vintage cars that included the red (0:10) and green (1:35) ones seen here!

show!

Every male in the 19th and 20th century had great hair. How did they do that?

Led paint?

J ai plein de matchbox trop belle

Those old fashion cars were still selling in the 1960s 50 years later

Wow! Imagine working that slow these days! would be fired by the end of the week!

i have the cars that they exacty show us its from my grandpa du u guys think i should sell it

i want them

I have a chevy 57 bel air still in the box

One car fell down on the right at 1:28

0:00 kinda looks like a highway

she is gorgeous @1:15

@igameidoresearchtoo6511

5 жыл бұрын

she died man

@AnoNiMuse

3 жыл бұрын

@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 lol

What was the price of one in those days ? If you would make them now, like that, they woud cost a fortune due to the manual labour cost ...

0:42 Is that a Carpenter??

Rip blue car 😢

Lesley is the Matchbox.

Waah

Ill operate the packaging thank you

素晴らしいクオリティ！

Nice to see Not made in China.

"Os adultos choram para as crianças sorrirem"

Toys being made in a Western nation? That must have been an alternate universe Earth!

@zymbaluknik8093

3 жыл бұрын

What?

@adamcarlo7666

3 жыл бұрын

@@zymbaluknik8093 You obviously didn't get my sarcasm concerning globalization.

👍🇧🇷

They toy cars are old but ours is not old toy cars

Please give me all of them lol

🤗❤️👍

Was that pee wee Herman at :15 sec in?

Is that Pee Wee Herman at the drawing board?

high tech car manufacturing at that time...

the good old days when china did not know how to manufacture things by exploited labour

More advenced than any pakistani factory today.

Too bad that they're not 1/24th die cast metal models.

:)

For me match box car is better than hot wheels i know matchbox cars are expensive but it worthit

Sad part is, all the people in the video is probaly dead :(

@heronumbertwo3171

3 жыл бұрын

At least they enjoyed and cherished these toys. Now, toy cars are pretty much overhyped, cheap and low-quality compared to these

Lead toys for children to play all day long. Not even the worker touch the material without gloves... lol

@AlexBabcock-hw9iz

2 жыл бұрын

They weren't lead

@MarceloRodrigues-ff6vc

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlexBabcock-hw9iz What where they made of?

@AlexBabcock-hw9iz

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarceloRodrigues-ff6vc you're right there was a bit of lead in the metal of very early castings. And even much later lead paints were used. That's a problem even today on some toys made in China.

Nadie: Vintage Hot wheels es mejor

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@FilipinoFurry

3 жыл бұрын

🇰🇵

@igorfreitas2841

3 жыл бұрын

@@FilipinoFurry 🇵🇹🤝🇰🇵

@FilipinoFurry

3 жыл бұрын

XD

So many women working on toys for boys 😮...I'm sure the men where working in Barbie factories back then😂

2021 plastic matchbox....

Impressive dinky production line,

This is all China now. What have we done?

Matchbox now is only garbage

Greed ruined everything. As usual.