Tonka ca. 1958 State Hi-Way Dept. Truck Custom Plow *SOLD*

Tonka ca. 1958 State Hi-Way Dept. Truck Custom Plow

A brief history of Tonka Toys of Mound, Minnesota:  

Tonka was begun by Lynn Everett Baker, Avery F. Crounse and Alvin F. Tesch in 1946, but it didn’t start out as Tonka; instead Mound Metalcraft in 1946.   Tesch re-engineered some old toy concepts left by their building’s previous tenants, and dubbed the toys “Tanka,” which means “big” in Dakota Sioux tongue.