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The Mettoy company history
The Mettoy company was founded by German emigree Philip Ullmann in 1933, who set up a business in Stimpson Avenue, Northampton, England. Ullmann had twenty one years experience running his own toy company in Germany called Tipp, and he was soon joined by South African born German, Arthur Katz, who had previously worked for him. In the 1940s and 1950s Mettoy produced a range of die-cast model vehicles which, although crude, proved to be popular and Ullmann and Katz realised that a wider range of toy cars could not only be profitable, but could also break the stranglehold that Meccano's range of Dinky Toys had over the market.
