Category:Dinky Toys Air Show, rotating motorised retail display

Exhibit
Dinky Toys Air Show, rotating motorised retail display
location:
Arch Two , Area 72 Arch Two, Overhead

A motorised retail display unit dating from the late 1960s or 1970s, designed to show off the then-current Dinky Toys aircraft range.

The display holds twelve diecast Dinky Toys, and has them “flying” in formation, along two circular paths.

Construction

The display unit has a large motor housed in a box fabricated from yellow Meccano plates edged with silver Meccano strips, fixed to a large dark-painted (black?) baseboard for stability). Protruding from the top of the box in one vertical central vertical rod (to hold a display card), and twelve angled rods, as two sets of six, at two levels, each of which has an angled threaded end, onto which a Dinky plane has been crewed, tightened with a square Meccano nut.

Attached aircraft

Top level

• Messerschmitt BF109E (Dinky Toys 726)
• Jump Jet (Dinky Toys 722)
• Hawker Siddeley 125 Jet (Dinky Toys 723), yellow and white
• Boeing 737 (Dinky Toys 717)
• Battle of Britain Spitfire MkII, AIA (Dinky Toys 719)
• Jump Jet #2

Bottom level

• Spitfire A1A
• Junkers Ju.87b Stuka (Dinky Toys 721)
• Hawker Hurricane Mk2 (Dinky Toys 718)
• Hawker Siddeley 125 Military Passenger Jet, XG172 (Dinky Toys 723)
• Sea King Helicopter, 66 (Dinky Toys 724)
• Beechcraft C55 Baron, N555C (Dinky Toys 715) yellow

Two of the aircraft are duplicated: There are two Hawker Harrier Jump-Jets and two Spitfires.