Tokyo Plaything Shokai Co., Ltd (initially Toplay ltd) was founded in 1956 in Tokyo, Japan and ceased to exist in or around 1975. The company logo with the 3 fingers symbolises the 3 company founders; Yoshio Udagawa, Yukio Miyakawa and Yasuo Kushida. They mainly produced lithographed colorful tin toys. Like other Japanese manufacturers, they also produced for different US toy importers, like Linemar, Cragstan and others. These toys and their boxes often (but not always) did not carry the TPS name or logo, which makes it difficult to identify them.
They produced a colorful lithographed track set with an Oval Window VW toy. The tin body has a very nice detailed multicolored lithograph VW design. Tin chassis with a key wound motor. Some of the tin VWs have a removable key and special side skids on the chassis to help keep the VW on the track. Some have a fixed key and no side skids and may be used for a no track setup.
