in the 1920s trains, cars, trucks, military vehicles, aircraft, pistols and a variety of other toys were manufactured by dowst. vehicles often had white rubber tires which over time become brittle and often have not survived play-wear and time. one of the unique offerings were a set of 1932 graham diecast cars - tootsietoy offered a graham sedan, town car, coupe, roadster, dual cowl convertible, delivery panel truck and tow truck (seeley no date a). a marque not often seen in miniature since, graham was a household name at tootsietoy. the tootsietoy grahams were available in boxes with "graham" on the sides - indicating that they may have been used as promotional models for the graham company. if so, these would have been just about the earliest promotional automobile toys seen anywhere (seeley no date a).