Dublo Dinky Toys No 0670 AEC Mercury BP Shell Tanker; Original Box

Truck colour is Green/Red, it has smooth grey plastic wheels.  

In very good condition, never displayed, in its original tissue paper and box, which is in very good condition, although it has been 

slightly squashed.

Please see the photos as these form part of the description.

This model will be well packed and placed in a larger outer box for posting.

I am reducing my collection of models so please see my other listings for more models. 

The Dublo Dinky Toys range was announced by Meccano Ltd. in late 1957, and appeared in the shops in 1958. The range was designed to 1:76 scale to work with 00-gauge Hornby Dublo railways, just as the main, larger Dinky Toys range had been (mostly) designed to be compatible with the larger gauge 0 Hornby Trains.

The Dublo Dinky range didn't really catch the public's imagination in the same way as the original-size Dinkies, which were so popular in their own right as play toys that a lot of owners probably never realised that the range had originally been designed to work with gauge 0 model railways. The Dublo-sized vehicles, however, were just a bit too small to make really satisfying playtoys, and probably only really sold as set dressing for 00-gauge model railway layouts. With a restricted range of vehicles, and with some of the cars only being listed in the catalogues for a year or two before being discontinued (and the Dublo brand being discontinued in the 1960s after the takeover of Meccano Ltd. by Lines Brothers), the range is comparatively obscure, although some of the pieces did live on in the Dinky range for some years after the official demise of Dublo.