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• Buddy L (also known as Buddy "L" or Buddy-L) is an American toy brand and company founded in 1920 as the Buddy L Toy Company in East Moline, Illinois, by Fred Lundahl.[1]

Buddy L made such products as toy cars, dump trucks, delivery vans, Buddy L fire engine, construction equipment,[3] and Buddy L trains.[4] Fred Lundahl used to manufacture for International Harvester trucks.[1] He started by making a toy dump truck out of steel scraps for his son Buddy. Soon after, he started selling Buddy L "toys for boys", made of pressed steel.[1] Buddy L International Harvester Truck Many were large enough for a child to straddle, propelling himself with his feet.[1] Others were pull toys. A pioneer in the steel-toy field, Lundahl persuaded Marshall Field's and F. A. O. Schwarz to carry his line. He did very well until the Depression, then sold the company.[1] Sturditoy Truck Value Buddy L Locomotive Buddy L Box Car

From 1976 to 1990, Buddy L was owned by Richard Keats, a well-known New York toy designer who went to work for Buddy L the day after he graduated from Brown University in 1948.[1] By 1978 the company was located in Clifton, New Jersey. Free Buddy L Truck Value Guide

Buddy L Truck Value Pressed Steel Toys Auctions Buddy L Toys filed under bankruptcy protection. By 2010, Buddy L Toys was owned by Empire Industries of Boca Raton, Florida. Antique Buddy L Trucks Always Buying Buddy L Trains

In the 1990s, Buddy L made Splatter Up, a wet version of T-ball.[6]

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In November 2000, Empire of Carolina and its wholly owned subsidiary, Empire Industries, Inc., filed for bankruptcy and, in July 2001 Vintage Pressed Steel Toys Wanted  Buddy L Red Baby Wanted Contact Buddy L Museum. 1920's Buddy L Oil Truck Buddy L Wrecker Buddy L Flivver One Ton Express Truck