[AT] Spec Cast Tractors

[Ralph Goff]

China seems to be making most of the Ertl toys now. I just checked the boxes
of the latest two that I bought. (Case 1170 and 1470 Black Knight collectors
editions) Both said made in China.

Ralph in Sask.
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/lgoff/latestpage.html
----- Original Message -----
From: LeRoy Price III <leroy_price3 at hotmail.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Spec Cast Tractors


>
> > Besides being the location of the Field of Dreams and also
> >the Farmtek guys, Dyersville, Iowa is the home of Ertl, Spec Cast
> >and the last I knew, a smaller toy operation run by another of the
> >Ertl's.  Dyersville is not hard to get to and is only a short ways
> >north of Davenport and Moline. Lucille and I stopped in Dyersville
> >and took the plant tour of the toy making operation about 20 years
> >ago. Back then, I had the feeling they were already looking to the
> >Orient for a source of cheaper toys. I wonder now how many toys are
> >still made in Iowa?
> >
> >Cecil
>
> I highly doubt much would be made in Iowa anymore.  Initially Korea was a
> hot spot
> for the Toy Train manufacturers and now even there labor is getting high
> there so into
> China they went.  Low costs make more porfits.  I see that there is toy
> tractors being
> made in Argentina by another company, the name doesn't come to mind at the
> moment.
>
> LeRoy
>
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