Up for grabs, we have this early, pressed steel toy car.....

Even though American toy companies did not make the shift from cast iron to pressed steel until the early 20th century, the groundwork for this transition had been laid in the late 1850s, when the Bessemer refining process was introduced........ Steel was both more malleable and stronger than cast iron, and less likely to rust or crack....... For manufacturers, this meant the metal was easier to work with and for consumers, it meant goods lasted longer......

Expanding sales of automobiles coincided with major improvements in pressed-steel technology...... Suddenly, large sheets of thin steel could be pressed into curved or angled forms using a heavy die....... By the 1920s, this widely used manufacturing technique was downscaled to create miniature model cars and trucks in the same fashion......

 Thanks to pressed steel, model vehicles were both more durable and realistic than ever before........

This cool, old toy is from the 1940's....It was made in the U.S.A and manufactured by the All Metal Products Company.....

All Metal Products Company was an American toy company founded in 1920 and based in Wyandotte, Michigan for most of its history...... It produced inexpensive pressed metal toys under the Wyandotte brand name, and was the largest manufacturer of toy guns in the US for several decades in the 20th century......

The company's slogan was "Wyandotte Toys are Good and Safe"..... To keep costs down, the company used scrap and surplus raw materials whenever possible, often manufacturing their toys from scrap metal obtained from local auto factories........

In the early 1950's, All Metal Products Company moved to Ohio, hoping that closer proximity to Ohio's steel mills and cheaper Ohio labor would help the company cut costs, The effort was not enough to prevent All Metal Products Company from going bankrupt in 1956.......

This piece is a real gem.....Its in descent shape for being as old as it is, however its missing some stuff, mainly the trailer door......

It measures 23" long, and have a look at the pictures, there are some scratches and light rust threwout......

This is a sweet, sweet find for any collector, we are pleased to offer it........

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