D is for Dutch Daimler from De Gruyter

I'm not sure if it's pronounced 'greweeter' or 'groiter' or even 'grew'it'er', but I first learned of De Gruyter many years ago in an article in Plastic Warrior magazine, penned by Jan Boers, on this issuer of little novelty playthings (with coffee) in the same vein as German Wundertüten (they actually carried the Jean knights with De Gruyter bases I think), Spanish Sobres or our own 'Lucky Bags'.

I have to say they have proved hard to track down, but I do have the same church as was included in Jan's article somewhere (in red polyethylene) and this (polystyrene 'mini-kit') came into the pile a year or so ago, I can't remember if I bought it, if Mr. Little found it for me or if Mr. Evans chucked it in one of his bags, but I'll thank Adrian and Peter just to be sure!

In the same format as the Kellogg's stuff made by R&L 'down under', but seemingly a locally-produced item in Holland (similar stuff comes out of Italy) the 1899 Daimler model has only eleven parts of which eight are wheels and hubs!

Packaging to the left while on the right I've shown a couple of the R&L/Kellogg's models for comparison, both have similar part counts and the same pin-through wheel/hub arrangement, and the same basic size. Indeed - packaging is everything as all this premium/giveaway/freebie stuff went around-and-around!

If I were to find another I'd take one off the runners and assemble it, but then the chances are it's more likely to find a started/finished one anyway, so I won't ruin this unnecessarily!

I say the other two are both Kellogg's, but I only know the blue one is the 1896 - The First Ford from the 'Century of Transport' issue we looked at here (link), the other is unknown and while I suspect another Kellogg's set it could be a second De Gruyter?