The Great Book of Corgi, by Marcel Van Cleemput (ISBN 0904568539)
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The Great Book of Corgi", by Marcel Van Cleemput [image info]
work in progress
Marcel Van Cleemput's definitive book on Corgi, with 32 chapters and six numbered appendices, large-format hardback, 512 pages.
Contents
Chapters
- Pre-Corgi
- Development and launch of Corgi Toys
- 1957: Quick range expansion and consolidation
- 1958: Missiles and Majors
- 1959: "Stop the World, I Want To Get Off"
- 1960: Hovercraft and Bluebird skim into the 60s and The Circus comes to town.
- 1961: Kits and Motor Racing
- 1962: Miscellany with Lights
- 1963: More gimmicks, kits, Trans-O-Light and Everything Works
- 1964: Classics, wipers, Learn to Drive and the London Bus
- 1965: Enter "The Saint" and James Bond and the Musical Van
- 1966: From U.N.C.L.E. to Batman, with a few exotic cars along the way
- 1967: Wooster, Bond, Batman and the Green Hornet televised by Samuelson's
- 1968: From Take-off Wheels to the Monkees and Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang
- 1969: Fire, Fire, Fire, A trip on Concorde with the Beatles, Noddy and Popeye
- 1970: Whizzwheels Mania and the Hardy Boys ... who?
- 1971: A Day Out to Santa Pod, on a Magic Roundabout with Basil Brush and Wild Honey
- 1972: Flying back to Formula 1 Racing and "Diamonds are Forever"
- 1973: J.P.S., Dastardly Dick and Back to World War Two
- 1974: Large J.P.S., Tanks and Water
- 1975: Hesketh and Helicopters
- 1976: Who Loves Ya, Baby? Kojak, Tarzan and Batman again
- 1977: Silver Jubilee celebrations, Starsky and Hutch and "The Spy Who Loved Me"
- 1978: Charlie's Angels and More Vans, Agriculture and The Circus is Back In Town
- 1979: The Incredible Hulk and Other Horrors, into orbit with the Space Shuttle and The Muppets
- 1980: Dolphinarium, "The Professionals" and Buck Rogers
- 1981: Another lap of the Tour de France, Gliders, Bond and Corgitronics
- 1982: The New Classics, Magnum, Go-Carts and More Corgitronics
- 1983: Going Out in Style
- Specials
- What might have been
- 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