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20/01/2021 3:08 pm
Fun-Ho! Toys were a brand of diecast toy cars and trucks manufactured and distributed by Underwood Engineering Co. Ltd. in New Zealand. Production was started by Jack Underwood about 1935 and continued until 1982. Since this time reproductions have been made also in Inglewood at the Fun Ho! Toys Museum.
Currently toys are occasionally cast as museum memorabilia using original molding plates and boxes.
The Fun Ho! Midget Scale Model series was introduced in the mid 1960s. These are all metal with no plastic for windows.
At least 15 models seem similar to Matchbox models but smaller and cruder. I collected the Jaguar E-Type and Jaguar Mark 10 variations.
I currently don't have the other models but invite others to show theirs.
Some dies later arrived in Australia and were produced under the name Message Models. One of these was the Jaguar Mark 10.
For a time, some Fun-Ho! Midget models were used as promotional models for Mobil Gas in the USA, and recognizable by their red and white boxes.
These were called "Mobil Midget Models" and displaying a Mobil gas pump on the boxes and instruction sheet.