TOY NOMURA OVAL
Toy Nomura Co. was founded in 1923 in Tokyo, Japan and used a trademark of T.N inside a diamond. In the 1950s and ’60s, it was one of the largest toy manufacturers in Japan and, like many other Japanese toy makers, produced toys for the USA market which were distributed by toy importer, Cragstan, based in New York.
The company remained independent until 1993, when it was bought out by Hasbro Inc.
Back to the 1950s, though, and Toy Nomura produced an Oval Window VW toy with a tin body, cut-out windows and very good details of the bonnet, engine lid, door seams and intake louvres under the rear window. Small tin body parts include headlights, a bonnet handle, windscreen trim and side trim.
The letdown was the tin lithograph interior, which was not that of a VW design at all, but looks more like a
