Efsi Toys model cars catalogue

197 items

Efsi was a Dutch manufacturer of miniature cars. More

At the end of the 1960s, the mines in Limburg were closed. DSM (De Staatsmijnen) is trying to provide the miners with new work. DAF comes to Born for this, among other things.

The state mines had workshops where disabled miners could perform work, in order to still have a sensible daytime activity. These 'WIM workshops' (Workplace Disabled Miners) were transformed into Social Workplaces after the mine closure, and placed with the Fund for Social Institutions (FSI), which again placed its sheltered workshops with the Foundation Fund of Companies of FSI, abbreviated to SFB. . One of those activities was the continuation of Best Box 's model car production. Initially still under the name Best Box, in the 1970s they switched to Efsi, a phonetic pronunciation of FSI.

The company was moved to the De Beitel industrial estate in Heerlen. Initially, production continued with the existing molds. Later the molds were made by a company in Portugal. After these molds were made to measure, an alloy of zinc and aluminum was used to cast the cars, trucks and buses. Separate molds were used for the plastic parts, where the wheels, interiors, windows and bumpers were cast. The plastic came from DSM in the form of granules in various colors that Efsi mixed itself. Passenger cars were phased out in the late 1970s.

The maintenance of the molds and the machinery was carried out by EFSI mechanics themselves.

In 1986, after the closure of the FSI, the molds of Efsi were taken over by Holland Oto from Weert (Evidence of this can be found in Efsi models found in Holland Oto packaging).

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Number of model cars

197

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Oldest item

Ford Model-T Van (1971)