Corgi Toys and sold in large numbers. Some of the best known and most popular models were of cars made famous in film and television such as the Batmobile, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 – which remains the largest selling toy car ever produced. Although the largest single vehicle type featured in the Corgi Toys range were models of cars from manufacturers around the world, this article sub-divides vehicles into genres, wherever possible, to allow a more detailed look at the variety of models produced by the company. Mettoy became established in Northampton and within six years
James C. Toy Hickory, Harford County, Maryland to Eleanor Toy (1853-) and her husband, carpenter and farmer John Toy (1803-c.1872), James was the third of six sons; the family also included five daughters but no slaves. He married Mary Toy in 1874. Their son William was born in 1876 and daughter Rose in 1883. During the American Civil War, James Toy and two of his brothers volunteered to serve for three year terms in the Union Army. All were initially sent to Maryland's Eastern Shore, a hotbed of Confederate sympathizers, perhaps because of its agricultural dependence on slavery. James Toy joined the Purnell