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**Published on Apr 13, 2014**

Check out the process of how Matchbox toy cars were made in 1965 at the Matchbox cars factory in Hackney, London.   
  
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Hackney, London.  
  
Begins with fabulous shots of model cars and trucks on a moving conveyor belt. Looks like a surreal motorway with brightly coloured cars moving along it. Traffic a go-go!  
  
Matchbox Cars factory. Shots of men at their drawing boards designing Matchbox models. C/Us of prototypes being created - tiny parts are painted then a wooden prototype is created. Mould is made then scaled down. Man operates a pantograph - cutting a mould. Various shots of cars being made. They are then placed on a conveyor belt and are spun around as they are sprayed by a paint machine. C/Us of wheels being applied and women working on a conveyor belt adding small details like clip in seats.   
  
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