Minibrix construction kits were manufactured from 1935 to 1976 in the UK by the Premo Rubber Company (a subsidiary of the I.T.S. Rubber Company), which had traditionally made rubber shoe heels.
Like the later and more famous construction toy, Lego, Minibrix consisted primarily of interlocking bricks with moulded studs on the surface. Being produced before the availability of modern plastics, the bricks, bases, roofs and lintels were all made of hard rubber.
Two series of kits were available in different styles for making Tudor and Modern buildings.
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