The Great Book of Corgi, by Marcel Van Cleemput (ISBN 0904568539)

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Marcel Van Cleemput's definitive book on Corgi, with 32 chapters and six numbered appendices, large-format hardback, 512 pages.

Contents

Chapters

  1. Pre-Corgi
  2. Development and launch of Corgi Toys
  3. 1957: Quick range expansion and consolidation
  4. 1958: Missiles and Majors
  5. 1959: "Stop the World, I Want To Get Off"
  6. 1960: Hovercraft and Bluebird skim into the 60s and The Circus comes to town.
  7. 1961: Kits and Motor Racing
  8. 1962: Miscellany with Lights
  9. 1963: More gimmicks, kits, Trans-O-Light and Everything Works
  10. 1964: Classics, wipers, Learn to Drive and the London Bus
  11. 1965: Enter "The Saint" and James Bond and the Musical Van
  12. 1966: From U.N.C.L.E. to Batman, with a few exotic cars along the way
  13. 1967: Wooster, Bond, Batman and the Green Hornet televised by Samuelson's
  14. 1968: From Take-off Wheels to the Monkees and Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang
  15. 1969: Fire, Fire, Fire, A trip on Concorde with the Beatles, Noddy and Popeye
  16. 1970: Whizzwheels Mania and the Hardy Boys ... who?
  17. 1971: A Day Out to Santa Pod, on a Magic Roundabout with Basil Brush and Wild Honey
  18. 1972: Flying back to Formula 1 Racing and "Diamonds are Forever"
  19. 1973: J.P.S., Dastardly Dick and Back to World War Two
  20. 1974: Large J.P.S., Tanks and Water
  21. 1975: Hesketh and Helicopters
  22. 1976: Who Loves Ya, Baby? Kojak, Tarzan and Batman again
  23. 1977: Silver Jubilee celebrations, Starsky and Hutch and "The Spy Who Loved Me"
  24. 1978: Charlie's Angels and More Vans, Agriculture and The Circus is Back In Town
  25. 1979: The Incredible Hulk and Other Horrors, into orbit with the Space Shuttle and The Muppets
  26. 1980: Dolphinarium, "The Professionals" and Buck Rogers
  27. 1981: Another lap of the Tour de France, Gliders, Bond and Corgitronics
  28. 1982: The New Classics, Magnum, Go-Carts and More Corgitronics
  29. 1983: Going Out in Style
  30. Specials
  31. What might have been
  32. Making Corgi Cars

Appendices

  • Appendix I: Character Merchandise
  • Appendix II: Model and Component Statistics
  • Appendix III: Models that reached the Million Mark
  • Appendix IV: Introduction of the different box styles
  • Appendix V: Author's favourite Top Twenty
  • Appendix VI: Corgi Sales fIGURES 1957 TO 1981
  • Index of Model Types
  • Numerical Model Index
  • Alphabetical Model Index
  • General Index