Whilst I shall continue my Corgi Toys @ 60 series, I need to mark what is now the 70th anniversary of the launch of Corgi Toys. For those who do not wish to go way back to my post in July 2016, here is the list of models released in July 1956.
The models with a suffix M to the catalogue number were fitted with a friction motor. When pushed along, a heavy flywheel would start to rotate at speed and continue to propel the model for a few seconds. In several ways this was quite unsatisfactory to us children, principally because the speed they reached was dreadfully slow and nothing like as fast as a good push would produce for the normal edition, even on a carpet of reasonable pile and nowhere close to the speed or distance you could achieve on lino or floorboards. The models also cost 3d or 4d more.
The M models were deleted from dealers' order sheets in 1959 and good examples, with working motors, are expensive now and well worth collecting after all!
The model with the greatest sales was the Austin Healey 100/4, around 533,000 due to it staying available until 1965. Apart from the M models, the Triumph TR2 had the shortest production period, discontinued in 1960 and replaced by a TR3.
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