Great general tin and Christmas tin, everyone!
While my pictures don't come close to the majority of what has been posted in this thread, especially in terms of age and maker, I'll post them anyway. While not yet in my possession, purchased this guy yesterday. I have a foreign made, 1:72 scale Aral truck with trailer on my layout that my dad got in the 80s. I always liked that piece and thus had to go for this Fleischmann tanker:
Speaking of my dad, he was always a big fan of 1.) Greyhound busses and 2.) The Virginian and New Haven RRs(he grew up during the MPC era and has the MPC era E-33 New Haven and Virginian. So, here is my Christmas present for him(to the extent that Corgi can be considered tinplate- it is to me, at least)