The Roaring '20s: The new decade rolled in with a surge of optimism. The Roaring Twenties...the Jazz Age...the Flapper Era. There was vitality in the air. As the boys came home from the Great War, the Charleston became the dance rage, and rapid change in society seemed the norm. The '20s was also a decade of great deeds and momentous improvements in technology and engineering. Charles Lindberg flew on his solo transatlantic flight and became one of the greatest American heroes of all time. And the U.S. Post Office began to look towards the skies for a more efficient and speedier method of delivering mail. While the first sanctioned airmail delivery had taken place in 1911 between Garden City and Mineola, New York, and scheduled airmail began officially in 1918, it was in the '20s that great leaps were made in airmail delivery. By 1920, a transcontinental air route had been established and, by 1921, mail was flown day and night from New York to San Francisco. Congress was so impressed that it soon appropiated $1,250,000 for the expansion of airmail service, landing fields, towers and beacons as well as materials for flight. The following year, the Post Office was awarded the Collier Trophy for its important contributions to aeronautics. By the end of the decade, international airmail was established.

Now, the excitement of the Roaring Twenties is recalled in an authentic die-cast model of a 1920 MACK AC Postal Truck. Fitted with a soft top, this vintage die-cast model bears a colourful recruiting poster, "Join the Navy", on its side panels. Your 1920 MACK AC Postal Truck is produced by - and available only from - Matchbox Collectibles.

(1999)

Scale: 1:43