Description

Lledo was a British manufacturing company founded in 1982 by Matchbox co-founder Jack Odell, and Burt Russell, 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.