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I have a similar photo to Teknoib. It is: large Tekno, medium Vilmer, medium Tekno, small Vilmer, small Tekno
Four different sizes! The medium Tekno and Vilmer are the same xact casting – some say the grills go different directions but these are the same and do not look they are replaced. Their names are on the baseplates and Tekno has an extra cross brace under the rear axle! Have you noticed?
Black Maria – I had to google to find out where the name came from. It could have been named after a race horse (Harlem, 1826) or a woman who ran a boarding house. Her name was Maria and she was African-American (Boston, 1820s). She was very strict and was more feared than the Police! I like that story better than the horse! The newspaper or someone then named the carriage that took prisoners to jail as the “Black Maria”!
I did look around for what the TEKNO large dodge was based on after I obtained a Lego CHEVROLET – they look too similar to be different trucks. The large Tekno is a Chevrolet from 1950s, like this 1952: http://www.purplewaveauction.com/a/2010/20100331ag/3461.JPG . So I think Lego got it right and maybe Tekno copied and changed it to a DODGE? 1950 DODGEs look like this: http://home.comcast.net/~jobrated/Big_Dodge_painted.jpg
So, then Vilmer or Tekno brought out the medium sized “DODGE” as a toy version of the large Chevy. This is just my theory. Same for the min-DODGE by Tekno, just a bad or toy copy of their large one.
I am sorry I can not write in Danish, but I have collected Tekno since I was a kid in the summers in Denmark and now I live in USA. I have a copy of a catalog from Canada from that era, so I think Tekno sold many cars in US and Canada. 20-30 years ago at the toy shows there were many Dodge for sale – all 3 sizes. Vilmer Dodge as well – both sizes.
Danish fire trucks in the US? These were sold as toys so most kids did not care if it was a Ford or a Triangel, I think. Black Maria is a very old word from the 1800s for a prisoner van or carriage from New York City or Boston – not used anymore.
Karl
I got my BP tractor in 2009 in DK with black tires. Very hard for me to find one. The harvester has those “TEKNO” V8 wheels – 🙂
Hello from USA – I am sorry I have to write in English. I have collected Tekno for many years now but do not know much about these B.P. boxes for the Tekno Mercedes. Mine have come from ebay in Europe mostly. I have some of the same ones you have and read the same http://bohnstedtpetersen.dk/history.htm website.
Tekno were sold in the early years in the US – 1950s-1960s maybe, the old Dodge trucks, FIRE DEPT trucks, etc. Then at the end of the 1960s they showed up in high end toy stores – MPC and KIRK cars, etc. Some blister packs were sold but they are very rare.
I have never heard of Mercedes Benz dealers giving or selling Tekno 1/43 copies of the cars ever in the US. I do not think Tekno did that with any American dealers. In the 1960-70s the 1/24 scale plastic promo was very popular in the US, not 1/43 metal. But I could be wrong!
Hi Hi Knut, Ole, Peter! And Hans Jørgen – I’ve seen your name before! You all know a lot about Tekno. It is fun to learn their history and back ground, I think.
Hello from USA. I am very sorry I can not write in Danish. The 4CV is one of my favorite Tekno, and Vilmer, cars! Model Collector, Feb 1990, had a great article on Tekno 800-series by Anders Ditlev Clausager. He said the 4CV came out for Christmas 1956 and was withdrawn in 1963. The wheels were the five-spoke “starfish”, in ivory plastic with bright hubcaps! I wonder when the Vilmer came out?
Sorry for another post in English. After I read all the replies here, I went back to my old catalogs. The 71/72 lists these cars with a hole for the Sprite:
810 819 833 834 835 836 837 838So the little VW can tow the caravan! I will have to check for a hole in mine.
That catalog also shows a 3 mm and a 3,5 mm hole – with 2 types of screws!
Sorry I cab not ewrite in Danish but I live in the USA and speak English. I also have searched for what type truck the Tekno “Dodge” is. I asked some of the American car boards and they did not know any Dodge like that.
It probably is a 1 1/2 or 2 ton Chevy like these:
http://www.cars-on-line.com/53686.html
http://1950-chevrolet-trucks.blogspot.com/2012/04/1950-chevrolet-model-6400-2-ton-truck.htmlWith Lego and others making the big “Chevy” truck in ~1/43 scale, perhaps Tekno went with Dodge hubs so as not be be accused of copying the Lego Chevy toy design? (I have seen the Lego catalog list their 1/43 truck withg the same design as a Chevy!)
