Vintage Metal Tonka T6 Bulldozer 1960's

Vintage metal Tonka T6 Bulldozer                    1960's                            In well played vintage condition                 Please see photos as this is part of the condition and description

Measurements : length     220mm

                         height     115mm

                         width tracks     120mm

                         width blade     150mm

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Mound Metalcraft was created in 1946 in Mound, Minnesota, by Lynn Everett, Avery F Crounse and Alvin F Tesch. Their original intent was to manufacture garden implements. Their building's former occupant, the Streater Company, had made and patented several toys. EC Streater was not interested in the toy business so they approached Mound Metalcraft.  The three men at Mound Metalcraft thought they might make a good side line to their other products.

After some modifications to the design by Alvin Tesch and the addition of a new logo created by Erfling Eklof (based on a University of Minnesota  drafting student's sketch by Donald B Olsen who later became the company Chief Induustrial Engineer with the Dakota Sioux word "Tanka" or Tonka, which means "great" or "big") the company began selling metal toys, which soon became the primary business. In November 1955, Mound Metalctraft changed it's name to Tonka Toys Incorporated. The logo at this time was an oval, showing the Tonka Toys name in red above waves, presumably honoring nearby Lake Minnetonka.