Matchbox Cars
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- Pathe synopsis: ...a happier one is a production line of glitter and promise at a Hackney factory. It’s the beginning of the car story, except we’re concerned with matchbox replicas which are accurate right down to the last detail. They’re carved out of wood at first then scaled down to make a master cast of the two-inch models before rolling off the conveyor belts at the rate of eighty million a year. Compared with that...
- Keywords
- Industry and manufacture; Toys and models
- Locations
- London; England; Hackney
- Written sources
- Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Richard Norton
- Length of story (in feet)
- 195
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- British Pathe Ltd
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How to cite this record
'Matchbox Cars', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 538, 15 Apr 1965. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121638 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)