Founded | 1982 |
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Founder | Jack Odell Burt Russell |
Defunct | 1999 |
Fate | Went bankrupt in 1999, rights to brand acquired by Corgi Classics |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Die-cast scale model commercial vehicles, cars |
Lledo was a British manufacturing company founded in 1982 by Matchbox co-founder Jack Odell, and Burt Russell,[1] and based in Enfield. The factory produced mainly die-cast scale model commercial vehicles, and also cars, from 1983 to 1999, when the company went into bankruptcy.
Models were later made in China. "Lledo" was a reversal of Odell's own surname, a mnemonic device from war days in the African desert so as not to forget his wireless call sign.[2][3][page needed]