SIKU (“Sieper Lüdenscheid GmbH & Co. KG”) was founded in 1921. It was originally a manufacturer of metal tools and, later on, badges, medals, buckles for belts, buttons, and etc. It was not until 1950 that the company started producing toys and registered the trademark SIKU for its toy products. Originally, SIKU toys were of great variety and consisted of plastic vehicles among all else, such as plastic figures and animals. Starting in 1955, a dedicated line of car models were produced, and subsequently in 1958, SIKU became an exclusive range of plastic vehicles. In 1963 they started with their first die-cast models, the well-known “Super Series” came out in 1975. Small cars were at first packaged in both picture boxes and blister packages, but were only in blister packages of various styles since the 1980s. Large models are almost always packaged in window boxes although some came in blister package in the past. The Super Series is the major model range.

The silver-metallic and the red 9000 was sold in their standard range. The white ‘POLIS’ version was available only in Sweden! Very rare!