Books & Publications on Tri-ang Products

By James Day

(Listed In Date Order)

Title	Date	Author / Editor	Publisher	ISBN
Looking Backwards and Looking Forwards	1958	Walter Lines	Lines Bros. Ltd Private Publication	None

Tri-ang Railways the first ten years	1962	Jackson/Ryerson	Rovex Scale Models Ltd	None

Tri-ang Magazine (10 Issues) (See Note 1)	October 1964 to July 1965 Inclusive	Editor: Doug McHard	Outward Publication Ltd	None

Meccano Magazine (14 Issues) (See Note 2)	June 1965 to July 1967	Editor: Doug McHard	Thomas Skinner & Co.	None

Boys World Annual 1967 (see Note 3)	1966		Odhams	None

Tri-ang Collectors’ Club, later Tri-ang Hornby Collectors’ Club (See Note 4)	1974 to 1976?	Co-ordinator: John Shimwell	Privately Published	None

Tri-ang Hornby Book Of Trains	1968/9	OS Nock	Ian Allan	None

The Hornby Book Of Trains 25 Year Edition	1979	Editor: SW Stevens-Stratten	Rovex Limited	None

TCS News. (See Note 5)	1979 to Date 115 Issues so far	Various	Train Collectors Society

A Short History Of Tri-ang Railways	1980	Tony Stanford	Cranbourne Press Ltd.	None

Minic - Lines Bros. Tinplate Vehicles	1981	Sue Richardson	Mikansue	ISBN 0 904338 01 0

An Enthusiasts Guide to Scalextric Cars & Equipment of Past & Present	1981	Roger Gillham	Haynes & G T Foulis	ISBN 0 85429 286

Spot-On Diecast Models by Tri-ang	1983	Graham Thompson	Haynes	ISBN 0 85429 304 3

The Art Of Hornby	1983	Richard Lines	Kaye & Ward Ltd.	ISBN 0 7182 3037 X

Tri-ang Spot-On And Minic Price Guide (See Note 6)	1984	Frank Thompson	Ernest Benn Ltd.	ISBN 0 510 00171 8

An Enthusiasts Guide to Scalextric 2nd edition	1987	Roger Gillham	Haynes & G T Foulis	ISBN 085429 601 8

The Minic Book	1987	Peter Bartok	New Cavendish Books	ISBN 0 904568 49 0

Tri-ang Toys 1937/1938	1988	Editor Richard Lines	New Cavendish Books	ISBN 0 904568 71 7

Frog Model Aircraft 1932-76	1989	Richard Lines & Leif Hell Ström	New Cavendish Books	ISBN 0 904568 63 6

An Enthusiasts Guide to Scalextric 2nd edition Reprinted	1989	Roger Gilham	Haynes & G T Foulis	Not Known As First Print?

Tri-ang Railways The Story of Rovex Volume 1 1950-1965 (Edition 1)	1993	Pat Hammond	New Cavendish Books	ISBN 0 904568 7 1

An Enthusiasts Guide to Scalextric Third edition	1994	Roger Gillham	Haynes & G T Foulis	ISBN 085429 947 5

The History of Sindy - Britain's Top Teenage Doll 1962-1994	1995	Colette Mansell	New Cavendish Books	ISBN0 904568 64 4

Factory Life And Labour in Merton And Beddington 1920- 1960 (See Note 7)	1997	Sue Burley and Nick Edwards	London Borough of Merton	ISBN 0 905174 28 3

Scalextric Cars and Equipment, past and present 4th edition	1998	Roger Gillham	Haynes	ISBN 1 85960 432 3

Tri-ang Hornby The Story of Rovex Volume 2 1965-1971	1998	Pat Hammond	New Cavendish Books	ISBN 1 872727 58 1

Tri-ang Telegraph	1999 to Date 12 Issues so far	Miles Rowland	Tri-ang Society

Lines And Tri-ang Dollshouses And Furniture 1900-1971	1999	Marion Osbourne	Privately published	None

Ramsay's British Model Trains Catalogue 2nd Edition (See Note 8)	2000	Pat Hammond	Swapmeet Publications	ISBN 0 9528352 5 8

Tri-ang Railways Posters Used On Buildings	2001	Dave L McCarthy	Privately published	None

Tri-ang Railways The Story of Rovex Volume 1 1950-1965 2nd Edition	2001	Pat Hammond	New Cavendish Books	ISBN 1872727 29 8

Scalextric Cars and Equipment, past and present 5th edition	2001	Roger Gillham	Haynes	ISBN 1 85960 841 8

Scalextric – The Story of the World’s Favourite Model Racing Cars	2001	Rod Green	Harper Collins	ISBN 0 00 713421 5

Notes:

This is by no means an attempt to list every book or magazine that has carried an article on Tri-ang. There have been far too may of these to list here, but maybe one day the task of attempting to list them will be undertaken. This list is of books, magazines and newsletters that are on a predominantly Tri-ang Theme, or have featured a large amount of Tri-ang in their content.

Pleas let me have your comments and corrections and additions to James Day PO Box 20340, London NW11 6ZE Tel/Fax: (020) 8209 1589 E-mail: jamesday@btinternet.com

Note 1/ - Tri-ang Magazine October 1964 to July 1965

Not really in the same league as Meccano Magazine for ‘Hands On’ type articles, but stuffed full of adverts for Tri-ang products.

Note 2/ - Meccano Magazine (June 1965 to July 1967):

Published from 1916 until 1981 with a short break from August to December 1967 (Inclusive). The magazine had carried adverts for Tri-ang products since before the war, but during the above period it carried quite comprehensive articles on Tri-ang/Hornby, Scalextric, and occasionally Model Land and Minic. After publication was re-started by Model Aeronautical Press (MAP) in January 1968 the odd Tri-ang article appeared, but the focus was now as a mainstream hobbies title with Meccano, so these were few and far between.

Note 3/ - Boys World Annual (1967):

Not exactly a model book, but it contains 9 articles and write ups on Tri-ang products, including Scalextric, Minic Motorways, Frog Model Aircraft , Spot-On, Meccano and Tri-ang Hornby. It has some marvellous illustrations!

Note 4/ - Tri-ang Collectors’ Club, later Tri-ang Hornby Collectors’ Club? (1974 to 1976?):

Between November 1974 and Early 1976? John Shimwell produced a series of lists that were the valiant first attempt at getting a listing of Tri-ang products off the ground. A lot of progress was made and Pat Hammond credits this work as the basis for his own classification system.

Note 5/ - TCS News

First published by Train Collectors Society founder member Peter Gomm in June 1979, there have been articles on the Tri-ang family of railway related products in almost every issue since then.

Note 6/ - Frank Thompson's Price Guide (1984):

On the face of it this seems to be a very attractive book with a nice colour picture of Polly on the cover. Once you start delving into the pages it quickly becomes apparent that everything that appears in the catalogue is listed, given an availability rating and a price - Whether it was actually made or not! This rather spoils it.

Even closer examination will show things listed that are not supported by any evidence whatsoever. For example the entries for the Minic Motorways Morris Minor, Mobile Bank, Securicor Van and several other items, are even news to the development staff from the Minic factory!

Frank manages to quote Catalogue Numbers, dates these items were supposedly available and even prices. Whilst I am sure this book was published in good faith, where this information came from is anyone's guess. I therefore suggest that any information in this book be treated with deep suspicion unless it can be confirmed from another source.

Note 7/ - Factory Life And Labour in Merton And Beddington 1920- 1960

This interesting booklet contains some reminiscences of life at the Lines Brothers Tri- ang Factory as well as the factories of Pascalls, Pains, Mullards, Deans and other firms that were local to the area.

Note 8/ -m Ramsay's British Model Trains Catalogue 2^nd Edition (2000):

This contains a complete listing of Tri-ang, Tri-ang/Hornby & Hornby Railways locos 1951-2000 plus a history of Rovex. A third edition is in preparation for publication in 2002.

In Preparation for publication at some future date:

Hornby Railways The Story of Rovex Volume 3 1972-1996

Hornby The Story of Rovex Volume 4 1996-?

List Updated 05/02/01