Shanghai Toy Factory no.1 through no.5
Trademark: Shanghai Toy Factory
Following the 1949 Communist Revolution, the Chinese government nationalized and consolidated all former workshops and brands into state-controlled consortia. Thus emerged the five main Shanghai units, each with a specialized production focus, though they shared the same distribution catalog through the Shanghai Toys Import & Export Co.:
- Country
- China
- Address
- Shanghai
- Active
- 1949
Types of toys made
No. 1: Commercial aviation giants, large articulated city buses, and complex spacecraft; No. 2: Specialists in civilian car replicas and robots. No. 3: Focused on detailed mechanical wind-up animals and heavy tracked military vehicles. No. 4: Dedicated to emergency vehicles (ambulances and fire trucks) and experimental space toys (such as the Televiboat ME-777). No. 5: heavy-duty friction-powered tin motorcycles featuring built-in mechanical sirens.
