#851 Panthera Leo Machine Holland - Daf Daffodil Variomatic (Around 1967)

I taste discovering novel die-cast makers from the past. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few months ago, I flora this motorcar together with I bought it for five Euro. Maybe a chip expensive considering its condition, but consider I had never seen whatsoever of its build before, I decided to purchase it.

Lion Toys is a die-cast manufacturer from Holland. The fellowship started every bit early on every bit 1946 alongside tin trains, but shortly started producing scale cars too. The "Lion" inward the refer comes mayhap from its founder Arie van Leeuwen, but the Lion is also i of the symbols of the Netherlands, together with hence it could hold out both.

The fellowship seems to accept been real focused on the national market, producing cars that were pop inward the country. At simply about squall for they stopped producing cars to create alone trucks together with busses, i time again alongside a smashing focus on models which were pop inward the Netherlands.

The firs motorcar produced was a Volkswagen Type 1, but it was followed yesteryear many DAFs, a Renault Dauphine, an Opel Rekord or a DKW iii = 6.

Among the trucks, at that topographic point are i time again many DAF models, but also Mercedes, Volvo, Iveco, MAN or Scania, together with the busses are Hainje or Berkhof, amid others.

Since May 2010, the build is belongings of Tekno.