What's a Dinky?

"As we lived in a a flat my dinky, scooter and bicycle with training wheels lived at Nana's. I spent many happy Sundays tootling up and down the garden path and the footpath in my vehicles."

That quote from a recent post of mine resulted in a question from one of my readers, Kylie. "What's a dinky, Jill?"  I responded "A very small tricycle for pre-schoolers. I have a picture of my daughter on her Cyclops dinky. A Google image search for Cyclops Dinky will bring up some pictures."

As a picture is sometimes worth a thousand words I thought I should dig through the family album to find a dinky picture.  I couldn't find the one with my daughter so I am posting this picture from 1977 of one of my boys on his dinky.

A Google search for the meaning of the word dinky tells me that is has several different meanings today. I wonder if that is why Kylie posed her question.

Kylie's Congress

Adelaide geneablogger, Kylie Willison, has written about the sessions she will be attending at Congress. Hope she blogs about them.
The 13th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry – Kylie's Genes