Tiny Triple Teutonic Tuesday

I’ve had these tiny cars for around 25 yrs, junk shop/flea market finds. Would have paid no more than a dollar or two each for them. All three are from different countries, England, Australia (ya!) and New Zealand. Not sure how rare or common they are but I got them as they were a bit different and most of my stuff is VW with a sprinkling of Porsche(same thing I know!).

Each one is a different wheelbase but they look to be around HO scale, maybe a touch bigger. Each car has tread ‘bumps’ around the circumference of the tiny tyres. All three can park on a credit card, so that should give you an indication of the size. There’s no dates on them so based on the cars in question can’t be older than 1954/5 in the beetles case at least but are probably from the early 60’s at a guess. If anyone knows about this era of die-casts I’d be happy to learn more about them.

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Beetle Bonnet Badge, for scale, if your familiar with bugs.

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They have some nice crisp details considering the size and age of them. The little blue aussie one is the least detailed but still has some fine body/door gap lines, not sure if it’ll show up but it has a tiny VW badge that’s readable!

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Here they are on a credit card!

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Manufacturer listed as STREAMLUX, from Australia

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Here’s the English one, note the ‘No-8’ at the rear bumper end of the base.

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And this is the New Zealand made one, the ‘FUN HO’ in the casting leads me to think it’s HO scale, but it seems just a touch to big I think.

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(Sorry for the iPhone pics if they are burning anyone’s eyes! It's the best I got)