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I just published the next part (Part 7!) in MAR Online (in English) last week.
I hope you enjoy it.
The History of Vilmer Toys, Part VII: Cars and Other Small Vehicles
Hi Karl.
Yet a nother verry interesting article from your hand. Keep up the good work.
All the best from Bertel.Thanks guys. It’s too bad there is no one from Vilmer themselves to interview to answer all the questions we have. It was great that Peter found so many involved with Tekno and Molberg!
I also want to thank Hans Jørgen and others for their photos. I try to give credit to everyone.
Hi Karl.
As far as I know, you have the advertisements yourself. Take a look at them one more time…. No. 460, 461 and 462 have become Chevrolet military trucks in 1957 or 58….
460 – is Chevrolet stalin ogel.
461 – is Chevrolet big gun
462 – is Chevrolet rocket truck with one rocket.Since only Chevrolet has these numbers, Lambretta has naturally changed the numbers, from 400 to 500…
According to my conversation with Knud-Ove Jørgen Molberg, the lambretta was Molberg’s work and it was in Vilmer’s program from the start.Because Molberg actually cast Vilmer’s cars until Vilmer got a factory up and running in Kalundborg….
According to Peter’s information, Stjerne toys kept production at Hessensgade 27 — Also where TOBI and Molberg were….
Volvo 444 from Vilmer is a 1957-58 model with the round rear lights paved on the rear fender…
I think it might be wrong to put Scandinavia under one. We are completely different sovereign states that in no way form a community between the states. I think it might be the same as if I said that America and the United States are the same, which would include Canada, Mexico, Cuba and all the other states in South America.
We in Scandinavia do not speak the same language, nor do we have exactly the same letters. I would like to think that the trade probably had certain restrictions between Denmark and Sweden, but there was trade across the border from 1950… It was something completely different with Norway right up to around 1960-62…. And it still is today for certain things.
Thanks, Hans Jørgen, for the comments. I’ll add the dates for the Volvo and I understand your comment about the Chevrolet 460-462. That’s a good option but I don’t know if Volmer really paid that much attention to reference numbers! 🙂
I used the term Scandinavia because I did not know the import tax limitations on each country and tried to be generic. Maybe I should have just used Norway.
I think they did.. They were not amateurs.. You also write yourself that Dinky changed numbers for various things. Of course it has a meaning. This has implications for stock and for goods ordered by wholesalers. AND probably just as important, it has implications for tax, and charges for various materials, and for deductions in connection with production, etc… Tekno had, for example, added (1) on the Corgi Toys cars when they were wholesalers for them. It was not without reason.
It is completely wrong if I order no. 460, and every other package is a lambretta where I thought there were Chevrolet trucks I ordered.. Nothing good would come of that…
The Lambretta was produced by Molberg. He also delivered to the wholesaler himself… This would generally mean that Vilmer bought the Lambretta models from Molberg. In order to even get a deduction in income tax for this purchase, there must be an item number. After this, tax must be paid on the profit that comes from further sales… This requires an item number.
It is the case that every item in a production warehouse or in a store must have its own number. The same applies to everything in a business. I have managed the warehouse in a blacksmith’s workshop, and in the service department of a large furniture house. Once a year, an inventory was made, everything was written down with a number and value, to the credit of the tax office. I sell e.g. Used stuff. Tax actually requires that each item has its own number. So I’m pretty sure that Vilmer was reasonably correct with the numbering, especially with items from the outside like the Lambretta model. AND I remember that my grandfather calculated the inventory every year in the 1960s, so it’s nothing new.When you know what you have and what value these items have — provable with an item number — you also have the option of borrowing money to renew production equipment, forklifts, trucks, a new roof or a canteen, etc.
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Hvordan H…… får man dem ud ad en Vilmer bil ? Jeg har kun været heldig to gange ud af 5… Den ene var rent hæld den hande havde zinkpest så bilen revnede, de andre ruder sprang. Det er ikke så meget nemmere for Bedford modellen… Der er ingen nitter eller lim. … Hvordan får man hele ruden ud — nogen gode ideer ?
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I live in the US and do not have flea markets, etc, to go to to buy old beat up Vilmer for parts, so I have never taken one apart. It seems they found a good way to attach the windshield to the bottom of the cab – Perhaps like a rivet or press fit with a hole in it for the steering? I am sorry I can not help.
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