The Simply Dinky Auction at Vectis Auctions, Stockton, attracted global interest and raised £87,520 with its 'exceptional ...

A British icon, Dinky Toys was the miniature car division of ... and the result was a lightweight yet robust little car that did away with complicated pedal mechanisms, favouring a cunning hole ...

Mr Bonney, of Bretherton near Preston, Lancashire, said: "It all started when I was a little boy of five in the late 1950s. "Dinky toys were the only toys I was interested in. "If you got me one ...

The seller revealed the car had originally belonged to their grandfather, who collected the Dinky Toys while in the UK, working in South Africa as a railway engineer, and while in Canada.