If you search on 'Tractor' in the Little Wheels shop you will get 3 pages of results, as there are 50 results per page that is a lot of tractors. Mind you they are not all farm tractors, articulated lorries turn up too where the cab unit is defined as 'Artic Tractor'.

There are about 100 or so agricultural tractors of one sort or an other, mainly from the Hachette Tractors of the World series made by Universal Hobbies and made to the standard we expect from them, consistently well modelled and finely detailed.

There are two reasons for this wealth of agricultural machinery, one is that I recently bought a complete collection of the Hachette series, the other being my own farming background. I guess I'm of an age with most diecast collectors and the tractors we remember from our youth, grey Fergies, Fordson Power Major, David Brown Cropmaster all sell quickly to people like me who actually used them.

The ones that remain are an amazing set of specialist and quirky machines from the past 100 years or so, most of them from well before the word 'safety' was ever used on a farm. They seem to me to provide a wide and interesting set of ways of maiming the operator.

Try the search and see what you think.

deAgostini have some great series that make fine collections and they generally get the models made by really good suppliers like Ixo & Universal Hobbies. They are sold new with magazines on a subscription basis but they pretty quickly find their way on to the second-hand collector market. At this stage it becomes a fun project for collectors to track them all down via on-line shops like mine and on eBay. I've handled the Rally Collection a number of times and I'm part way through listing a complete set I bought at auction recently.

They are selling so quickly though that the range on display in the deAgostini collection page of the Little Wheels shop shrinks as fast as I can add more cars.

I suppose it is a function of age that I like the older cars best, the old Saabs & Fords from the 60's & 70's in particular. The second-hand Volvo PV544 which won the 1965 Safari Rally driven by a couple of privateers is a great model with sponsorship stickers from local tractor dealers and the like.

I've still got about 30 more cars to add so keep coming back to see the new additions every day.

Model Police cars have an enduring appeal, when I was a kid the Corgi Riley Pathfinder Police Car got much more respect in the playground than either the freewheeling or even the friction-powered civilian models. It was always fun to set up a chase and pretend you were Z Cars with your Corgi Police Zephyr chasing something disreputable like a stolen Jag Mk1.

From the Adult collector's point of view putting together a cabinet full of Police vehicles gives focus, if not limits, to a collection. You can refine it down again by being specific about what type of Police vehicle you collect. I have customers who collect Police cars only from one country - pretty tough when the country is New Zealand as there aren't that many, or one from every US State, both of which customers of Little Wheels are doing.

I've added a number of search tags to the items in the Little Wheels shop, Police being one of them, so that when you search on 'Police' you get all the Police related vehicles currently on sale. The same works for Ambulance & Fire too and a whole host of other search terms - so why not have a go?