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**Stangfreak** · 09-26-2019, 10:06 AM

I had never heard of this company until a few years ago when I turned over this horse drawn fire carriage. I have had this one for many, many years and always thought it was another vary of the Lesney Match version until I recently compared the two. It still kinda rocke me a bit that I had both these castings sooooo long and never compared them.

The Liedo model is just a slight bigger than the Lesney and even the horses are different...

**jt3** · 10-28-2019, 05:59 PM

I have read on a number of collector sites that Jack Odell ("Lledo" - backwards) was a former employee of Lesney / Matchbox during the Moko era.

**BOB-LO** · 08-06-2020, 03:29 PM

According to an article about Lledo on Wikipedia, "Lledo went bankrupt in 1999, and the naming rights and model range were bought by Corgi which continued producing Lledo models in China until 2005, when the remaining models were merged into the Corgi Classics range."

To add a few words from the Corgi website, "Today the Lledo brand still remains an integral part of Corgi Premiums with over 150 castings available for promotional use. In addition to the heritage brand of Lledo, Corgi has in excess of 7,000 die cast models available, ranging from post war Taxis to modern day commercial vehicles. In 2008 Hornby Hobbies acquired the Corgi brand, and still to this day people of all ages enjoy the Corgi collecting hobby and the associations, memories and interest each model evokes."

**jt3** · 05-01-2021, 07:55 AM

Edocar commissioned Lledo castings

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