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Mettoy Company Ltd. (Manufacturer)

Toy diecast Corgi Morris truck advertises Suttons Seeds, with ‘Sutton & Sons, Reading’ on the door. Made by Mettoy in Great Britain.
This toy diecast Corgi Morris truck advertises Suttons Seeds, with ‘Sutton // & // Sons // Reading’ on the door. The body is green with plastic moulded sacks on the bed. Donated by a former employee of Suttons. Corgi toys were made by Mettoy in Great Britain.

1 toy truck: metal, plastic

MERL miscellaneous note, Greta Bertram, 2 August 2012 – Suttons Seeds Ltd. was founded in 1806 by John Sutton (1777–1863) and traded as a corn merchant. It was known as the ‘House of Sutton’ and had premises on King Street, Reading. John’s two sons joined the business in 1832 and in 1836 it was renamed ‘Sutton & Son’. In 1837 the company moved to the Market Place, Reading, and expanded into seeds and acquired nursery grounds in Queens Road, Reading. In 1840 they established a testing laboratory and in 1873 new buildings replaced those in Market Place. These included various offices, separate store rooms for different types of seeds and bulbs, recreation rooms, residences and a fire station. In 1962 Suttons moved to new grounds and premises on the eastern outskirts of Reading, before moving to Torquay, Devon, in 1976 and then Paignton, Devon, in 1998., MERL Miscellaneous note - 'This is a Corgi Morris truck from the village cameo collection, made in the 1990s'

Great Britain

1990-01-01 - 1999-12-31

1990s

Toy, Model, Vehicle

Metal, Plastic