Tonka Toys have found their way into homes around the world, but their story began right by the shores of Lake Minnetonka in Mound in 1946. Though production ended locally in 1983, the connection ...
By 1955, the company had abandoned rakes and hoes and renamed itself Tonka Toys. Its bright yellow Mighty Dump Trump, introduced the following decade, became Tonka’s bestselling item for the ...
The pile driver that sends each piling a few inches lower with each stroke is no Tonka toy — it delivers around 35,000 foot-pounds of energy per blow. That’s the amount of energy needed to ...
It might look like a convoy of Big Boys with Big Toys - but this very impressive 'parade' of lifting and haulage horse power along the motorway in East Cork represents a lot of hard work through the ...
With factories locally and in Chile, North America and Indonesia – judiciously close to mining hubs – The King of the Tonka Toys is also branching out into built for purpose mining buckets. Three of ...