A 995-piece Dinky toy collection, gathered by a private collector over 50 years, has fetched more than £146,400 at auction. The die-cast metal vehicles dating back to 1934 were the brainchild of ...

There’s model-car collecting, and then there’s people like Ron van der Hoort. Over the span of 35 years, give or take a few months, he put together what is believed to be one of the largest Dinky Toys ...