MTT Products are made to compliment those beautiful pre WW2 toys produced by German toymakers such as Lineol, Elastolin, Gama, and Tippco, etc.  We mainly use .018" tinplate and try to use the same methods of construction, namely 'tag & slot'. We design each vehicle to have as many moving parts as possible; opening doors with working handles, opening visors and stowage boxes, steerable wheels, rubber tyres, folding cloth tilts, rotating turrets and moving guns, etc.

     Once a subject has been chosen we start by drawing up the main component parts such as the chassis, body and cab sides, etc. Using these drawings and sketches we produce soft tooling to produce prototype components which are then used for the prototype or development builds. This process is repeated until the prototype is finished and approved. When all of the tooling is completed and approved we send it for heat treatment to give us the best tooling life possible. This is very much a 'one-man-show' with support from my wife who helps with the publishing and sewing, so I have to be disciplined enough to do everything in the correct order; this is why it is so difficult to go back and make anything from our back catalogue! Once we start on a new project it tends to take over our lives!

     It usually takes from six to nine months from initial drawings to finished prototype, then a further two months for the initial 'off-tool' parts build. During this time we publish our MTT Newsletter every six weeks or so to keep our customers up to date with current progress. During the final stages of the initial parts build we use the newsletter to inform our band of collectors that we are in a position to take orders.