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The (Matchbox) Auto Design & Production Process, Circa 1965

That's one tiny assembly line

By Rain Noe - May 29, 2017

in Cars

This is both fascinating and fun to watch. Here we get a look inside an automotive design and production facility in 1960s Britain--though the cars they're producing are Matchbox cars. It's cool to see how they prototype them at 5x scale in wood, then use the prototypes to cut a scaled-down mold using a pantograph. The spraypainting step is also pretty neat:

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