Acme Trading specializes in producing unique diecast collectible vehicles in 1-18 scale. Collectors love the great variety of accessories offered by Acme, such as tool sets, car lifts, wheel sets, and more, which allow enthusiasts to create their own detailed dioramas. Enthusiasts who demand museum-caliber models will appreciate Acme's Real Art Replica series, which are ultra-detailed and range from 1:18 to the awe-inspiring 1:8 scale pieces.

Distler was founded in 1900 by Johan Distler in Nuremberg, Germany. Initially manufactured small 'penny toys'. In 1923 the founder died and the direction the firm was to take was guided by Braun and Meyer. Ernst Volk took over the Distler production and two years later he also took over Trix. At that time the collection consisted of cars, planes, railway stations and novelty toys.

Lehmann was born on June 9, 1856, in Berlin. In 1881, Ernst Paul Lehmann and Jean Eichner founded the Tin Toy Factory of Lehmann & Eichner. From the onset, Lehmann toys were characterized by innovative mechanisms, original ideas, funny names and a good feel for the fashions of the upcoming modern age.

Founded in 1931 in London, FROG stands for Flies Right Off the Ground. In 1932, a marketing partnership was created with the toy company Lines Brothers.

The toy cars produced by Goodee Toys were similar to and in competition with the Tootsietoy products of the mid 1950s. Two sizes were offered, both the 3-inch and 6-inch models were one piece castings. These were somewhat stylized but were still identifiable as to which full size vehicles they represented from the early 1950s.

Gunthermann started in 1877 by manufacturing tin-plate toys in Nuremberg. He died in 1890. It did not mean the end of the firm; the business was continued by Arnold Weigel. He made it his task to enlarge the collection with such toys as cars, racing cars, tram-cars, airplanes. The company was acquired by Siemens in 1965.

Heljan is a Danish model railway company. It originally specialised in buildings and accessories for model railsways and since 2002 has developed a range of rolling stock.

Hubley first started producting cast iron toys in the 1890s. Later, following the Second World War, the factory converted to producing pot-metal and plastic promotional models in addition to diecast zinc alloy toys. From approximately 1958-1960, Hubley issued a series of approximately 1:60 scale models or about 3 1/4 inches in length.

Ingap (Industria Nazionale Giocattoli Automati Padova) a recognized Italian manufacturer who produced many types of toys including automobiles, animals, trains and military toys. Ingap was an important Italian toy manufacturer in the prewar years.

This Parisian firm, 'La Societe Industrielle de Ferblanterie' (S.I.F.), was founded in 1899 and was well known for the manufacture of clockwork trains. After 1928 the name of the firm changed into 'Les Jouets de Paris', followed by JEP in 1932. Besides trains, they also produced other tin-plate toys, for example mechanical cars, submarines and boats.

Josef Neuhierl was born on July 13th in 1895. Josef began a mechanical apprenticeship. Neuhierl initially manufactured cars without reference to real vehicles; the first tin plate cars showed only a silhouette of the real model. In 1956 the 29 years old son Hermann joined the company (who later went onto to found Carrera).

Born in 1877, Joshua Lionel Cowen was an American inventor and founder of the Lionel Corporation. At first he manufactured electric tram cars, but after 1920 he added trains and some other toys to his collection. Lionel was soon the largest of three American toy train manufacturers, and for a short time in the early 1950s, Lionel was the largest toy manufacturer in the world.

In 1910 Georg Kellermann started business in Nuremberg. He specialized in the production of penny toys. In 1924 his son, Willy, joined his father and took over in 1931 after his father's death. Kellermann still manufactures tin-plate toys.

At the end of 1910 Hubert Kienberger founded a firm in Nuremberg for the production of penny toys and simple mechanical tin-plate toys. In the twenties the Kienberger collection consisted of trains, cars and motor-cyclists. The chosen trademark 'HUKI' was formed by the first two letters of the founder's name

Kilgore, of Ohio, began toy making in the 1920s. Its toys were cast iron. In 1937, Kilgore began making plastic cars, trucks, planes and buses, and later added plastic cap pistols, placing it among the first companies to produce plastic toys. Kilgore remained in business until 1978.