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Hornby Railways is a British model railway brand. Its roots date back to 1901, when founder Frank Hornby received a patent for his Meccano construction toy. The first clockwork train was produced in 1920.  In 1938, Hornby launched its first 00 gauge train. In 1964, Hornby and Meccano were bought by their competitor, Tri-Ang, and sold on when Tri-ang went into receivership. Hornby Railways became independent in the 1980s.

Jowett
Jowett was a manufacturer of light cars and light commercial vehicles in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1906 to 1954.

Pratt & Whitney
Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation (especially airlines) and military aviation. Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut. As one of the "big three" aero-engine manufacturers, it competes with General Electric and Rolls-Royce, although it has also formed joint ventures with both of these companies.

Henry Pooley & Son Ltd
Henry Pooley & Son Ltd was a mechanical engineering company specialising in the manufacture of weighing machines. It was based in Liverpool and later in Birmingham, England.The company was absorbed into W. & T. Avery.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Limited (KHI) (川崎重工業株式会社, Kawasaki Jūkōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) /kaʊ.əˈsɑːki/ is an international corporation based in Japan.  It has headquarters in both Chūō-ku, Kobe and Minato, Tokyo.The company is named after its founder Shōzō Kawasaki and has no connection with the city of Kawasaki, Kanagawa.

Lechler
Lechler is an Italian paints and coatings manufacturer.

Delta Motors Corporation
Delta Motor Corporation is a now defunct automobile company from the Philippines, formed by Ricardo C. Silverio. It operated under a technical tie-up with Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan, but also produced its own range of small off-roaders called the "Delta Mini Cruiser". Delta Motor was founded in 1962 and continued to be Toyota's local assembler and distributor until 1984.

Bausch & Lomb
Bausch + Lomb, an American company founded in Rochester, New York, is one of the world's largest suppliers of eye health products, including contact lenses, lens care products, medicines and implants for eye diseases. The company was founded in 1853 by an optician, John Jacob Bausch, and a financier, Henry Lomb. Its Ray-Ban brand of sunglasses was sold in 1999 to the Italian Luxottica Group.

Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Royal Philips, commonly known as Philips) is a Dutch diversified technology company headquartered in Amsterdam with primary divisions focused in the areas of electronics, healthcare and lighting. It was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik.

Waboba
Waboba is an outdoor toy and sporting goods brand based in Stockholm, Sweden and with offices in Guangzhou, China and Atlanta, Georgia. Waboba is the creator of the original balls that bounce on water. Even though Waboba began with “the ball that bounces on water” in 2005, it has since expanded to introduce a range of accessories and land items.The slogan used in advertising is Keep Life Fun. The name Waboba is a registered trademark and the balls are internationally patented.

Pop pop boat
A pop-pop boat is a toy with a very simple steam engine without moving parts, typically powered by a candle or vegetable oil burner. The name comes from the noise made by some versions of the boats. Other names are putt-putt boat, crazy boat, flash-steamer, hot-air-boat, pulsating water engine boat. Around the world they may be called Can-Can-boot, Knatterboot, toc-toc, Puf-Puf boat, Poof Poof craft, Phut-Phut, or Pouet-Pouet.


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Ibertren is a Spanish brand of model railway, based in Barcelona. It specialises in models of the Spanish RENFE train engines and cars.Ibertren N scale models were quite popular in Spain in the 90s; as of 2008, it sells a very limited selection of N models and a few H0 models.

Monorail
A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail, typically elevated. The term is also used to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or track.

Elsie Stix
Elsie Sticks were plastic ice cream sticks which became useful as an interlocking toy after the ice cream bar was eaten. They were produced in the early 1970s through Borden, Inc., dairy in the United States.Historically, Elsie Sticks appear to have emerged in the 1950s with U.S. Patent 2,844,910 a construction kit made of wooden ice cream sticks by the Southern Ice Cream Company of Kansas City, MO. This patent was extended in 1972 with U.S. Patent 3,663,717 and U.S. Patent 3,748,778.

REO Motor Car Company
The REO Motor Car Company was a Lansing, Michigan based company that produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975. At one point the company also manufactured buses on its truck platforms.REO was founded by Ransom E. Olds during August 1904. Olds had 52 percent of the stock and the titles of president and general manager.

Collectable
A collectable (collectible or collector's item) is any object regarded as being of value or interest to a collector (not necessarily monetarily valuable or antique). There are numerous types of collectables and terms to denote those types. An antique is a collectable that is old. A curio is a small, usually fascinating or unusual item sought after by collectors. A manufactured collectable is an item made specifically for people to collect.

Mazda
Mazda Motor Corporation (マツダ株式会社, Matsuda Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly referred to just as Mazda, is a Japanese automaker based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.In 2007, Mazda produced almost 1.3 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly 1 million) were produced in the company's Japanese plants, with the remainder coming from a variety of other plants worldwide. In 2011, Mazda was the fifteenth biggest automaker by production worldwide.

Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is an American electronics company that designs and makes semiconductors, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally.

Oldsmobile
Oldsmobile was a registered trademark of American automobiles produced for most of its existence by General Motors. Olds Motor Vehicle Co. was founded by Ransom E. Olds in 1897. In its 107-year history, it produced 35.2 million cars, including at least 14 million built at its Lansing, Michigan factory. When it was phased out in 2004, Oldsmobile was the oldest surviving American automobile marque, and one of the oldest in the world, after Daimler, Peugeot and Tatra.

Keuffel and Esser
The Keuffel and Esser Co., also known as K & E, was a drafting instrument and supplies company founded in 1867 by German immigrants William J. D. Keuffel and Herman Esser. It was the first American company to specialize in these products.

Dixie Flyer (automobile)
The Dixie Flyer was an automobile built in Louisville, Kentucky from 1916 until 1923.  Dixie Flyers were marketed under the slogan of "The Logical Car." They may be classified as Brass Era cars or vintage cars.The origins of the company can be traced back to 1878, when the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company was established.  In 1912, the local Electric Vehicle Company was acquired, which marked the entrance of Kentucky Wagon into the automotive field.

George Pullman
George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman, for the workers who manufactured it.


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This article refers to a model railway company. For other meanings, see K-line (disambiguation).K-Line Electric Trains is a brand name of O gauge and S gauge model railway locomotives, rolling stock, and buildings. Formerly the brand name under which Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based MDK Inc. sold its products, K-Line was then acquired by Sanda Kan, a Chinese toy manufacturer that formerly acted as K-Line's subcontractor.

Toms Shoes
Toms (stylized as TOMS) is a for-profit company based in Playa Del Rey, California, that operated the now defunct non-profit subsidiary, Friends of Toms. The company was founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie, an entrepreneur from Arlington, Texas.  The company designs and sells shoes based on the Argentine alpargata design as well as eyewear.

Pratt & Whitney
Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation (especially airlines) and military aviation. Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut. As one of the "big three" aero-engine manufacturers, it competes with General Electric and Rolls-Royce, although it has also formed joint ventures with both of these companies.

Stapleford Miniature Railway
Stapleford Miniature Railway is a historic steam locomotive-hauled 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) gauge railway at Stapleford Park, Stapleford near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England.Considered one of the finest examples of its type, the railway is now private but still attracts thousands of visitors from the UK and abroad during its two public charity events each year.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles
Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. is a subsidiary of the German Daimler AG.  This company designs, manufactures, and sells commercial vehicles that cater to the demands of Indian customers and are designed with nation's terrain in mind. These vehicles are branded as "BharatBenz", "Mercedes Benz" and "Fuso".After starting production in June 2012, the first heavy-duty truck was launched in September 2012.

Teddy bear
The teddy bear is a soft toy in the form of a bear.  Developed apparently simultaneously by toymakers Morris Michtom in the US and Richard Steiff in Germany in the early years of the 20th century, and named after President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, the teddy bear became an iconic children's toy, celebrated in story, song, and film.  Since the creation of the first teddy bears which sought to imitate the form of real bear cubs, "teddies" have greatly varied in form, style and material.

Nintendo
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 任天堂株式会社, Hepburn: Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo is the world's largest video game company by revenue. Founded on September 23, 1889, by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards.

Ceco Manufacturing Company
Ceco Manufacturing Company was a Providence, Rhode Island, US, firm which acquired a license to manufacture radio tubes in May 1929. Radio Corporation of America issued the license under Radio Corp. patents. The business was the second corporation licensed to produce radio tubes.In April 1930, there were fourteen businesses authorized to manufacture radio tubes in the United States. For some time they had a factory in Birmingham, Alabama, but it was closed due to labor discord.

HNI Corporation
HNI Corporation (formerly HON Industries) is the third-largest office furniture manufacturer in the world in regard to revenues resulting from office segment sales, behind both Steelcase and Herman Miller. Its headquarters is in Muscatine, Iowa U.S.A HNI is the leading gas and wood burning fireplace manufacturer and marketer in the United States. HNI's brands include The HON Company, Allsteel, Gunlocke, Paoli, Maxon, HBF, Sagus, Heatilator, Heat & Glo, Harman, and Quadra-Fire.

Pez
Pez (trademarked PEZ in capitals) is the brand name of an Austrian candy and their mechanical pocket dispensers. The candy itself takes the shape of pressed, dry, straight-edged, curved-corner, blocks (15 mm (5/8 inch) long, 8 mm (5/16 inch) wide, and 5 mm (3/16 inch) high), with Pez dispensers holding 12 Pez pieces.Pez was originally introduced in Austria, later exported, notably to the U.S., and eventually became available worldwide.

Long Island Rail Road
The Long Island Rail Road (reporting mark LI), legally known as the Long Island Rail Road Company and often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in southeastern New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island. With an average weekday ridership of 337,800 passengers in 2014, it is the busiest commuter railroad in North America.  It is also one of the few commuter systems in the world that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, year-round.


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Kader Industrial Company Limited was founded in Hong Kong in 1948 by Ting Hsiung Chao.  It was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1985 and presently trades under the name of "Kader Holdings Company Limited".The company today is one of the world's largest manufacturers of toy and hobby railways, and also has wider manufacturing interests as well as substantial investments in property. The vision of Mr.

Crown-Ikarus 286
The Crown-Ikarus 286 is a type of transit bus that was manufactured for the U.S. market from 1980 until 1986, under a joint venture between the Ikarus Body and Coach Works (Ikarus), of Budapest, Hungary, and Crown Coach Corporation from Los Angeles, California in the United States.  Loosely based on the Ikarus 280, the Crown-Ikarus 286 is a high-floor articulated bus.

Winmau
Winmau (pronounced "Win-more") is a British manufacturer of dartboards, other darts equipment and title sponsor of the oldest darts tournament still running, the Winmau World Masters. Founded in 1945, Winmau was acquired by rival dartboard manufacturer Nodor in 2002, with both brands remaining in production. The company is based in Bridgend in south Wales although manufacturing of the boards takes place in Kenya.

Harp switch stand
A harp switch stand is a type of railroad switch stand that was most common during the 19th century in the United States.  The name derives from the characteristic shape of the stand. The harp stand was typically used in conjunction with the stub switch.  It remained in use longest among narrow gauge railroads such as the Denver & Rio Grande well into the 20th century.The harp mechanism was a simple lever which pivoted on an axle pin located midway up the main body (the "frame") of the stand.

Garrard Engineering and Manufacturing Company
The Garrard Engineering and Manufacturing Company of Swindon, Wiltshire was a British company which was famous for producing high-quality gramophone turntables. It was formed by the jewellers Garrard & Co in 1915. The company was sold to Plessey, an electronics conglomerate, in 1960. During the period 1976-1978, Garrard developed demonstrators of the novel video disc technology. Although the team recognised the future potential of this data storage technology, Plessey chose not to invest.

DAF Trucks
DAF Trucks NV is a Dutch truck manufacturing company and a division of Paccar. Its headquarters and main plant are in Eindhoven.  Cabs and axle assemblies are produced at its Westerlo plant in Belgium. Some of the truck models sold with the DAF brand are designed and built by Leyland Trucks at their Farington plant in Preston, England.

Vabis
Vabis was a Swedish car and truck manufacturer, founded in 1891 as Vagnfabriks Aktiebolaget i Södertälje in municipality of Södertälje to produce railway cars.The first Vabis automobile (though the name was not applied until after this) was a four-seater designed by Gustaf Erikson in Surahammar in 1897.  Strongly resembling a contemporary carriage, it used a one-cylinder kerosene engine, tiller steering, and was not a success.

Rail transport in Great Britain
The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world: the world's first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825. Most of the railway track is managed by Network Rail, which in 2014 had a network of 15,753 kilometres (9,788 mi) of standard-gauge lines, of which 5,268 kilometres (3,273 mi) were electrified. These lines range from single to quadruple track or more.

Hasbro Interactive
Hasbro Interactive was an American video game production and publishing subsidiary of Hasbro, the large game and toy company. Several of its studios were closed in early 2000 and most of its properties were sold to Infogrames which completed its studio's closures in 2001.

Alvarez Guitars
Alvarez is a guitar manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri and founded in 1965. Along with manufacturing acoustic guitars and acoustic-electric guitars, Alvarez also manufactures classical guitars. Originally Alvarez guitars were known by the brand name Westone, but was switched to Alvarez. From 2005 to 2009, the brand was owned by LOUD Technologies, which also owns Mackie, Ampeg, Crate and other music-related brands.

Lokalbahn
A Lokalbahn or Localbahn "\local line", plural: -en) is a German term that usually refers to a railway line worked by local trains serving rural areas, typically in Austria and the south German states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Lokalbahnen appeared at the end of the 19th century before the use of cars became widespread.


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Kato Precision Railroad Models (関水金属株式会社, Sekisui Kinzoku Kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese manufacturer of model railroad equipment in N and HO scales. The Tokyo-based company manufactures models based on Japanese prototypes (such as the Shinkansen bullet train) for the Japanese market, North American prototypes for the North American market and European high-speed trains for European market. The design and distribution of models for the North Armerican market are handled by their U.S.

Craigtoun Miniature Railway
The Craigtoun Park Railway is a 15 in (381 mm) gauge railway operating on a circular track around part of the Craigtoun Country Park in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.The gauge employed is usually associated with more extensive railway operations, including public transport services on railways such as the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent, England.

Original equipment manufacturer
Original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is a term used when one company makes a part or subsystem that is used in another company's end product. The term is used in several ways each of which is clear in context.

Momotaro Dentetsu
Momotaro Dentetsu (桃太郎電鉄, Momotarō Dentetsu, Momotarō Electric Railway) (also known by the abbreviated name Momotetsu) is a long-running board game-style video game series in Japan; in which players travel by rail, ship, and airplane; attempting to acquire wealth through business transactions buying properties; and dealing with rival entrepreneurs and nemeses such as the God of Poverty (貧乏神, Binbōgami).

Midland Railway 2501 and 2511 Class locomotives
The Midland Railway 2501 and 2511 Class were two classes of American-built 2-6-0 steam locomotives.  The Midland's own Derby Works had reached their capacity, and were unable to produce additional engines at the time, and many British locomotive builders were recovering from an 1897-1898 strike over the eight-hour working day, and thus had large backlogs of unfulfilled orders, so the Midland Railway turned to American builders.

R. A. Rooney & Sons
R. A. Rooney & Sons Ltd. is a maker of shaving brushes, with over 200 years in business both in the UK and overseas (plus more than a century in Galway, Ireland). The exact origin of this company is unknown because of a huge fire in 1886 at their Bishopsgate plant that destroyed most of their old records.Rooney, now called The City of London Brushworks, offers both machine-made and handmade brushes. Many of their bristle buyers and bristle dressers have been with the company for over 50 years.

Keuffel and Esser
The Keuffel and Esser Co., also known as K & E, was a drafting instrument and supplies company founded in 1867 by German immigrants William J. D. Keuffel and Herman Esser. It was the first American company to specialize in these products.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toy line)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a film which has an associated toy line released in 2009 by Hasbro (Takara Tomy in Japan). The film, and thus the toy line, is based on the original Transformers media franchise. Releases in this toy line ran from May 2009 to early 2010. The 2007 toy line proved to be a retail hit, selling even 18 months after the first film was released.Pictures of the first Revenge of the Fallen toys started to appear in on the internet in late 2008.

Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Royal Philips, commonly known as Philips) is a Dutch diversified technology company headquartered in Amsterdam with primary divisions focused in the areas of electronics, healthcare and lighting. It was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik.

Smith Flyer
The Smith Flyer was an American automobile manufactured by the A.O. Smith Company in Milwaukee from 1915 until about 1919 when the manufacturing rights were sold to Briggs & Stratton and it was renamed to Briggs & Stratton Flyer. The Smith Flyer is a small, simple, lightweight, two-seat vehicle with a wooden frame that doubles as the body and as the suspension.  A small gasoline engine is mounted on a fifth wheel, or motor wheel, to drive the Flyer.

Pop pop boat
A pop-pop boat is a toy with a very simple steam engine without moving parts, typically powered by a candle or vegetable oil burner. The name comes from the noise made by some versions of the boats. Other names are putt-putt boat, crazy boat, flash-steamer, hot-air-boat, pulsating water engine boat. Around the world they may be called Can-Can-boot, Knatterboot, toc-toc, Puf-Puf boat, Poof Poof craft, Phut-Phut, or Pouet-Pouet.


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Klein Modellbahn was an Austrian model railway manufacturer, founded in 1984 in Vienna, where they are currently based. Their product line consists of mostly Austrian rolling stock and locomotives in H0 scale, covering both the pre–World War I Südbahn and the postwar ÖBB.

Pop pop boat
A pop-pop boat is a toy with a very simple steam engine without moving parts, typically powered by a candle or vegetable oil burner. The name comes from the noise made by some versions of the boats. Other names are putt-putt boat, crazy boat, flash-steamer, hot-air-boat, pulsating water engine boat. Around the world they may be called Can-Can-boot, Knatterboot, toc-toc, Puf-Puf boat, Poof Poof craft, Phut-Phut, or Pouet-Pouet.

Jessop & Company
Jessop & Company Limited is a privately owned engineering company based at Kolkata, India. It is part of the Ruia Group of companies conglomerate, which also owns prominent Rubber & Tyre companies like Dunlop India and Falcon Tyres.

Keuffel and Esser
The Keuffel and Esser Co., also known as K & E, was a drafting instrument and supplies company founded in 1867 by German immigrants William J. D. Keuffel and Herman Esser. It was the first American company to specialize in these products.

Sally Corporation
Sally Corporation is a dark ride and animatronic manufacturing company based in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. The company serves amusement parks, attractions, museums and retail clients worldwide. It offers complete design/build services from concept to installation, including scripting, audio and music production, props and sets, lighting and special effects, electronics, and project management.

Shinkansen
The Shinkansen (新幹線, new trunk line) is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan operated by four Japan Railways Group companies. Starting with the Tōkaidō Shinkansen (515.4 km, 320.3 mi) in 1964, the network has expanded to currently consist of 2,615.7 km (1,625.3 mi) of lines with maximum speeds of 240–320 km/h (150–200 mph), 283.5 km (176.2 mi) of Mini-shinkansen lines with a maximum speed of 130 km/h (80 mph), and 10.3 km (6.4 mi) of spur lines with Shinkansen services.

Elsie Stix
Elsie Sticks were plastic ice cream sticks which became useful as an interlocking toy after the ice cream bar was eaten. They were produced in the early 1970s through Borden, Inc., dairy in the United States.Historically, Elsie Sticks appear to have emerged in the 1950s with U.S. Patent 2,844,910 a construction kit made of wooden ice cream sticks by the Southern Ice Cream Company of Kansas City, MO. This patent was extended in 1972 with U.S. Patent 3,663,717 and U.S. Patent 3,748,778.

ITT Corporation
ITT Corporation (ITT) is a global  manufacturing company based in the United States, producing specialty components for the aerospace, transportation, energy and industrial markets.The company was founded in 1920 as International Telephone & Telegraph. During the 1960s and 1970s, under the leadership of its CEO Harold Geneen the company rose to prominence as the archetypal conglomerate, deriving its growth from hundreds of acquisitions in diversified industries.

R. A. Rooney & Sons
R. A. Rooney & Sons Ltd. is a maker of shaving brushes, with over 200 years in business both in the UK and overseas (plus more than a century in Galway, Ireland). The exact origin of this company is unknown because of a huge fire in 1886 at their Bishopsgate plant that destroyed most of their old records.Rooney, now called The City of London Brushworks, offers both machine-made and handmade brushes. Many of their bristle buyers and bristle dressers have been with the company for over 50 years.

BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (About this sound pronunciation ; English: Bavarian Motor Works), commonly known as BMW or BMW AG, is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. BMW is headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It also owns and produces Mini cars, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad, and plug-in electric cars under the BMW i sub-brand.

General Motors
General Motors Company, commonly known as GM, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, that designs, manufactures, markets and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts and sells financial services.  The current company, General Motors Company LLC, "\new GM"), was founded in 2009, after the bankruptcy of the General Motors Corporation ("old GM"). The new, smaller, company purchased many of the assets of "old GM", including the name "General Motors".


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LGB stands for Lehmann Gross Bahn - the "Lehmann Big Railway" in German. Made by Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk in Nuremberg, Germany, since 1968 and by Märklin since 2007, it is the most popular garden railway model in Europe, although there are also many models of U.S. and Canadian prototypes. LGB caused a revival of garden model railroading in the United States when it was introduced.

Keuffel and Esser
The Keuffel and Esser Co., also known as K & E, was a drafting instrument and supplies company founded in 1867 by German immigrants William J. D. Keuffel and Herman Esser. It was the first American company to specialize in these products.

Arighi Bianchi
Arighi Bianchi is a furniture shop in the town of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.  It was founded in 1854 by Italian immigrants Antonio Arighi and Antonio Bianchi who originated from the village of Casnate on the shores of Lake Como.The shop is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It has a cast iron and glass frontage, and stands close to Macclesfield Station and Tesco.

Nachtmann (glass manufacturer)
Nachtmann or F. X. Nachtmann Bleikristallwerke GmbH (English: F. X. Nachtmann Lead Crystal Works Ltd.) was a fine glass maker, originally founded in 1834 by Michael Nachtmann in Unterhütte, Oberpfalz. In 1900 the company was taken over by Zacharias Frank who moved the headquarters to Neustadt an der Waldnaab.After the war in 1945 Nachtmann rebuilt the partially destroyed production facilities and began with the production of lead crystal in Neustadt and Riedlhütte.

Midland Railway 2501 and 2511 Class locomotives
The Midland Railway 2501 and 2511 Class were two classes of American-built 2-6-0 steam locomotives.  The Midland's own Derby Works had reached their capacity, and were unable to produce additional engines at the time, and many British locomotive builders were recovering from an 1897-1898 strike over the eight-hour working day, and thus had large backlogs of unfulfilled orders, so the Midland Railway turned to American builders.

Tooth Protectors
Tooth Protectors is a rare video game for the Atari 2600 video game console. It was released exclusively via mail order in 1983 by American pharmaceutical and consumer goods manufacturer Johnson & Johnson.

Locomotive
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th century to distinguish between mobile and stationary steam engines.A locomotive has no payload capacity of its own, and its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks.

Oldsmobile
Oldsmobile was a registered trademark of American automobiles produced for most of its existence by General Motors. Olds Motor Vehicle Co. was founded by Ransom E. Olds in 1897. In its 107-year history, it produced 35.2 million cars, including at least 14 million built at its Lansing, Michigan factory. When it was phased out in 2004, Oldsmobile was the oldest surviving American automobile marque, and one of the oldest in the world, after Daimler, Peugeot and Tatra.

Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Royal Philips, commonly known as Philips) is a Dutch diversified technology company headquartered in Amsterdam with primary divisions focused in the areas of electronics, healthcare and lighting. It was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik.

General Motors
General Motors Company, commonly known as GM, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, that designs, manufactures, markets and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts and sells financial services.  The current company, General Motors Company LLC, "\new GM"), was founded in 2009, after the bankruptcy of the General Motors Corporation ("old GM"). The new, smaller, company purchased many of the assets of "old GM", including the name "General Motors".

Toy Story Toons
Toy Story Toons is a series of short animated films based on the Toy Story franchise. The plotline of the series begins after Toy Story 3. The films are set at Bonnie's house, the new home of Andy's toys. As of 2014, three shorts have been released as part of the series – Hawaiian Vacation and Small Fry in 2011 and Partysaurus Rex in 2012. A fourth short, titled Mythic Rock, was rumored in 2013.


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Life-Like Products LLC (now Life-Like Toy and Hobby division of Wm. K. Walthers) is a manufacturer of model railroad products and is based in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in the 1950s by a company that pioneered extruded foam ice chests under the Lifoam trademark. Because ice chests are a summer seasonal item, the company needed a way to keep the factory operating year round.

REO Motor Car Company
The REO Motor Car Company was a Lansing, Michigan based company that produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975. At one point the company also manufactured buses on its truck platforms.REO was founded by Ransom E. Olds during August 1904. Olds had 52 percent of the stock and the titles of president and general manager.

James W. Queen & Company
James W. Queen & Company was an optical and scientific instrument company located at 924 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a branch office in New York City, and active in various forms from 1853-1925, and subsequently as Gray Instrument Company until 1952.  In 1853 Mr James W. Queen began in the city of Philadelphia a small business in optical and philosophical apparatus. In 1859 he joined with Mr. Samuel L.

Brindley & Foster
Brindley & Foster was a pipe organ builder based in Sheffield who flourished between 1854 and 1939.

Mazda
Mazda Motor Corporation (マツダ株式会社, Matsuda Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly referred to just as Mazda, is a Japanese automaker based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.In 2007, Mazda produced almost 1.3 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly 1 million) were produced in the company's Japanese plants, with the remainder coming from a variety of other plants worldwide. In 2011, Mazda was the fifteenth biggest automaker by production worldwide.

Volvo
The Volvo Group (Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, usually shortened to AB Volvo) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg. Its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of  trucks, buses and construction equipment. Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services.

Steinberg's (electronics store)
Steinberg's Inc. (/ˈstaɪnbərɡz/ US dict: stīn′·bərgz) was a chain of stores in the Eastern United States that specialized in consumer electronics and home appliances. The Reading, Ohio–based company was founded by Ely Steinberg in 1921, and the Steinberg family continued to own the chain until its bankruptcy and liquidation in 1997.

Burroughs Corporation
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company, and after the 1986 merger with Sperry Univac was renamed Unisys. The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in computing. At its start it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers.

General Motors
General Motors Company, commonly known as GM, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, that designs, manufactures, markets and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts and sells financial services.  The current company, General Motors Company LLC, "\new GM"), was founded in 2009, after the bankruptcy of the General Motors Corporation ("old GM"). The new, smaller, company purchased many of the assets of "old GM", including the name "General Motors".

Transnet Rail Engineering
Transnet Rail Engineering, formerly known as Transwerk, is a subsidiary of Transnet whose business it is to keep South Africa's trains rolling.  According to the Operational Report at Transnet, Transnet Rail Engineering's responsibility includes "the maintenance, upgrade and manufacture of locomotives, wagons, coaches, rolling stock components and associated transport equipment".  The company operates seven factories in South Africa.

Michelin
Michelin (/ˈmɪʃəlɪn/ or /ˈmɪtʃəlɪn/; French pronunciation: [miʃˈlɛ̃]; full name: SCA Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin) is a tire manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne région of France. It is one of the three largest tire manufacturers in the world along with Bridgestone and Goodyear. In addition to the Michelin brand, it also owns the BFGoodrich, Kleber, Tigar, Riken, Kormoran and Uniroyal (in North America) tire brands.


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Lionel, LLC is a designer and importer of toy trains and model railroads that is based in Concord, North Carolina.  Its roots lie in the 1969 purchase of the Lionel product line by cereal conglomerate General Mills but would not be its own company until the Martin Davis Investment Group bought the company in 1995 from Richard P.

Midland Railway 2501 and 2511 Class locomotives
The Midland Railway 2501 and 2511 Class were two classes of American-built 2-6-0 steam locomotives.  The Midland's own Derby Works had reached their capacity, and were unable to produce additional engines at the time, and many British locomotive builders were recovering from an 1897-1898 strike over the eight-hour working day, and thus had large backlogs of unfulfilled orders, so the Midland Railway turned to American builders.

Vabis
Vabis was a Swedish car and truck manufacturer, founded in 1891 as Vagnfabriks Aktiebolaget i Södertälje in municipality of Södertälje to produce railway cars.The first Vabis automobile (though the name was not applied until after this) was a four-seater designed by Gustaf Erikson in Surahammar in 1897.  Strongly resembling a contemporary carriage, it used a one-cylinder kerosene engine, tiller steering, and was not a success.

Modelguns
Modelguns are Japanese replica or toy guns, which are usually made of zinc-alloy or plastic materials.Most modelguns are designed to replicate the physical outlook and in full scale of the real gun counterpart. Some bear the authentic markings that make them look very realistic like real guns.

Locomotive
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th century to distinguish between mobile and stationary steam engines.A locomotive has no payload capacity of its own, and its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks.

Dixie Flyer (automobile)
The Dixie Flyer was an automobile built in Louisville, Kentucky from 1916 until 1923.  Dixie Flyers were marketed under the slogan of "The Logical Car." They may be classified as Brass Era cars or vintage cars.The origins of the company can be traced back to 1878, when the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company was established.  In 1912, the local Electric Vehicle Company was acquired, which marked the entrance of Kentucky Wagon into the automotive field.

Société Franco-Belge
The “Société Franco-Belge” was a French/Belgian engineering firm that specialised in the construction of railway vehicles and their components and accessories.

Pratt & Whitney
Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation (especially airlines) and military aviation. Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut. As one of the "big three" aero-engine manufacturers, it competes with General Electric and Rolls-Royce, although it has also formed joint ventures with both of these companies.

Turtle Wax
Turtle Wax is a manufacturer of automotive appearance products. The company was founded by a Chicago entrepreneur named Benjamin Hirsch in 1941 and is currently headquartered in Willowbrook, Illinois. Hirsch family members are involved with the company to this day.

Ceco Manufacturing Company
Ceco Manufacturing Company was a Providence, Rhode Island, US, firm which acquired a license to manufacture radio tubes in May 1929. Radio Corporation of America issued the license under Radio Corp. patents. The business was the second corporation licensed to produce radio tubes.In April 1930, there were fourteen businesses authorized to manufacture radio tubes in the United States. For some time they had a factory in Birmingham, Alabama, but it was closed due to labor discord.

Krupp
The Krupp family (see pronunciation), a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their production of steel, artillery, ammunition, and other armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. It was important to weapons development and production in both world wars.


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MTH Electric Trains, formerly Mike's Train House, is an American toy train and model railroad designer, importer, and manufacturer, based in Columbia, Maryland. It is a privately held company.

Modelguns
Modelguns are Japanese replica or toy guns, which are usually made of zinc-alloy or plastic materials.Most modelguns are designed to replicate the physical outlook and in full scale of the real gun counterpart. Some bear the authentic markings that make them look very realistic like real guns.

Kullman Building Corporation
Kullman Dining Car Company, established in Newark, New Jersey in 1927, originally manufactured  diners. The company expanded and later became the Kullman Building Corporation. It relocated to Avenel and finally to Clinton Township  (with corporate offices in Lebanon) and over the years production grew to include prefabricated housing, dormitories, prisons, schools, banks, equipment buildings of cellular communications towers.

Spyker
Spyker or Spijker was a Dutch car manufacturer, started in 1880 by coachbuilders Jacobus and Hendrik-Jan Spijker, but to be able to market the brand better in foreign countries, in 1903 the 'ij' was changed into 'y'. They were originally based in Hilversum but in 1898 moved to Trompenburg, Amsterdam.

Rockwell International
Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate in the latter half of the 20th century, involved in aircraft, the space industry, both defense-oriented and commercial electronics, automotive and truck components, printing presses, valves and meters, and industrial automation.  It was the ultimate incarnation of a series of companies founded by Colonel Willard F. Rockwell.  At its peak in the 1990s, Rockwell International was No.

Kay Musical Instrument Company
Kay Musical Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer of the United States, in operation since the 1930s until the 1960s. It was established in 1931 at Chicago, Illinois by Henry Kay Kuhrmeyer, from the assets of the former Stromberg-Voisinet, which was founded as Groeschel Mandolin Company in 1890. Kay offered their first electric guitar in 1936—five years after the Rickenbacker Frying pan, and the same year as the Gibson ES-150.

Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of conveyance of passengers and goods, by way of wheeled vehicles running on rails. It is also commonly referred to as train transport. In contrast to road transport, where vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles are also directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Track usually consists of steel rails, installed on ties (sleepers) and ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves.

Proto:87
Proto:87 is a model railroad special interest group founded in 1978, dedicated to providing a finescale alternative to traditional H0 scale.Due to manufacturing restrictions and considerations such as durability, ease of operation and price, most model railroad products feature significant compromises that inhibit their viability as accurate scale models of their prototypes.

Krupp
The Krupp family (see pronunciation), a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their production of steel, artillery, ammunition, and other armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. It was important to weapons development and production in both world wars.

Long Island Rail Road
The Long Island Rail Road (reporting mark LI), legally known as the Long Island Rail Road Company and often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in southeastern New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island. With an average weekday ridership of 337,800 passengers in 2014, it is the busiest commuter railroad in North America.  It is also one of the few commuter systems in the world that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, year-round.

Momotaro Dentetsu
Momotaro Dentetsu (桃太郎電鉄, Momotarō Dentetsu, Momotarō Electric Railway) (also known by the abbreviated name Momotetsu) is a long-running board game-style video game series in Japan; in which players travel by rail, ship, and airplane; attempting to acquire wealth through business transactions buying properties; and dealing with rival entrepreneurs and nemeses such as the God of Poverty (貧乏神, Binbōgami).


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Mamod is a British toy manufacturer specialising in manufacturing live steam models. The company was founded in 1937 in Birmingham in the UK by Geoffrey Malins. The name is a contraction of 'Ma' lins 'Mod' els'. Malins started off making steam engines which were sold under the Hobbies brand name but he soon started selling them under the Mamod brand name. The first models produced were of stationary steam engines.

Peugeot
For the article about the bicycle manufacturer, see Cycles Peugeot.Peugeot (US /puːˈʒoʊ/; UK /ˈpɜrʒoʊ/; French pronunciation: [pøʒo]) is a French cars brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën.The family business that preceded the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion trademark.

Dazey Products Company
The Dazey Products Company was a major American home appliance manufacturer that was founded in 1965. The company specialized in the manufacture of kitchen gadgets. It manufactured brand names such as "Seal-A-Meal" and "Foot Saver". The company filed for bankruptcy and was defunct by 1999.

Assembly line
An assembly line is a manufacturing process (most of the time called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to work station where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.

Toms Shoes
Toms (stylized as TOMS) is a for-profit company based in Playa Del Rey, California, that operated the now defunct non-profit subsidiary, Friends of Toms. The company was founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie, an entrepreneur from Arlington, Texas.  The company designs and sells shoes based on the Argentine alpargata design as well as eyewear.

Lechler
Lechler is an Italian paints and coatings manufacturer.

Winmau
Winmau (pronounced "Win-more") is a British manufacturer of dartboards, other darts equipment and title sponsor of the oldest darts tournament still running, the Winmau World Masters. Founded in 1945, Winmau was acquired by rival dartboard manufacturer Nodor in 2002, with both brands remaining in production. The company is based in Bridgend in south Wales although manufacturing of the boards takes place in Kenya.

Tiger Corporation
Tiger Corporation (Japanese: タイガー魔法瓶株式会社 Taigā Mahōbin Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese multinational manufacturer and marketer of vacuum flasks and consumer electronics including electric kettles, hot water dispensers, electric water boilers and rice cookers.  It has subsidiaries in China, Taiwan, and the United States. The total revenue was 35.1 billion yen in 2011. The total number of employees is 600.

Manufacture d'armes de Bayonne
Manufacture d'armes de Bayonne (sometimes also called Manufacture d’Armes Automatiques de Bayonne) was a French pistol manufacturer. The company was founded by Léon Barthe in 1920. It survived the German occupation during World War II, and after several changes in ownership wound up being a subsidiary of Fabrique Nationale of Herstal sometime in the 1970s.  MAB made parts for FN under their ownership, but eventually was forced to close in September 1982.

Bausch & Lomb
Bausch + Lomb, an American company founded in Rochester, New York, is one of the world's largest suppliers of eye health products, including contact lenses, lens care products, medicines and implants for eye diseases. The company was founded in 1853 by an optician, John Jacob Bausch, and a financier, Henry Lomb. Its Ray-Ban brand of sunglasses was sold in 1999 to the Italian Luxottica Group.

Hyster Company
Hyster is an American manufacturing company specializing in forklifts and other materials-handling equipment.  Hyster was founded in 1929 as the Willamette-Ersted Company in Portland, Oregon.  The company was purchased in 1989 by NACCO Industries, Inc.


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Mehano is  a Slovenian toy company, founded in 1952 as Mehanotehnika, produces a large range of both traditional and electronic toys, as well as model railroad equipment. The company had borne its current name of Mehano since 1990. Mehano applied for bankruptcy/closure in November 2008, following reported economic difficulties during the preceding ten years. Despite this, the company continues to do active business to this day.

General Motors
General Motors Company, commonly known as GM, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, that designs, manufactures, markets and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts and sells financial services.  The current company, General Motors Company LLC, "\new GM"), was founded in 2009, after the bankruptcy of the General Motors Corporation ("old GM"). The new, smaller, company purchased many of the assets of "old GM", including the name "General Motors".

Hooper (coachbuilder)
Hooper & Co. was a British coachbuilding company based in Westminster London. From 1805 to 1959 it was a notably successful maker, to special order, of luxury carriages both horse-drawn and motor-powered.

DAF Trucks
DAF Trucks NV is a Dutch truck manufacturing company and a division of Paccar. Its headquarters and main plant are in Eindhoven.  Cabs and axle assemblies are produced at its Westerlo plant in Belgium. Some of the truck models sold with the DAF brand are designed and built by Leyland Trucks at their Farington plant in Preston, England.

Gamo (air gun manufacturer)
Gamo is an airgun manufacturer. The company is based in Spain and is the largest producer of guns and rifles in Europe, and the largest producer of pellets in the world. The company was founded in 1959, as El Gamo, and airgun production first started in 1961. Today Gamo production includes rifles, pistols, ammunition and optics.

Rockwell International
Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate in the latter half of the 20th century, involved in aircraft, the space industry, both defense-oriented and commercial electronics, automotive and truck components, printing presses, valves and meters, and industrial automation.  It was the ultimate incarnation of a series of companies founded by Colonel Willard F. Rockwell.  At its peak in the 1990s, Rockwell International was No.

Hinopak Motors
Hinopak Motors Limited was formed in 1985 by a diverse group of sponsors. These included Hino Motors Limited, Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Al-Futtaim Group and PACO. In 1998, Hino Motors, and Toyota Tsusho Corporation obtained majority shareholding in the company after disinvestments by the other two founding sponsors.Hinopak Motors manufactures and markets Hino diesel trucks and buses in Pakistan.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Limited (KHI) (川崎重工業株式会社, Kawasaki Jūkōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) /kaʊ.əˈsɑːki/ is an international corporation based in Japan.  It has headquarters in both Chūō-ku, Kobe and Minato, Tokyo.The company is named after its founder Shōzō Kawasaki and has no connection with the city of Kawasaki, Kanagawa.

Farrow & Ball
Farrow & Ball are an English manufacturer of paints, and wallpapers largely based upon historic colour palettes and archives. Their colour names, such as Elephant's Breath, have become talking points  in themselves.

History of IBM
International Business Machines, or IBM, nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century.

Nintendo
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 任天堂株式会社, Hepburn: Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo is the world's largest video game company by revenue. Founded on September 23, 1889, by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards.


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Gebr. Märklin & Cie. GmbH or Märklin (MÄRKLIN or MAERKLIN in capital letters) is a German toy company.  The company was founded in 1859 and is based at Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg. Although it originally specialised in doll house accessories, today it is best known for model railways and technical toys. In some parts of Germany and in Sweden, the company's name is almost synonymous with model railroads.

BMC Switzerland
BMC Switzerland AG (abbreviation of "Bicycle Manufacturing Company") is a bicycle and cycling product manufacturer based in Grenchen, Switzerland.  BMC designs, builds and distributes road bikes, mountain bikes, and commuter bikes primarily for sale to dealers in North America, Europe (including Scandinavia), South Africa, Australia, East Asia and the United Arab Emirates.

Winmau
Winmau (pronounced "Win-more") is a British manufacturer of dartboards, other darts equipment and title sponsor of the oldest darts tournament still running, the Winmau World Masters. Founded in 1945, Winmau was acquired by rival dartboard manufacturer Nodor in 2002, with both brands remaining in production. The company is based in Bridgend in south Wales although manufacturing of the boards takes place in Kenya.

Heinz
The H. J. Heinz Company, or Heinz, is an American food processing company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  It was founded by Henry Heinz in 1869.  The H. J. Heinz Company manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six continents, and markets these products in more than 200 countries and territories.  The company claims to have 150 number-one or number two-brands worldwide.

Coby Electronics Corporation
Coby Electronics Corporation was an American manufacturer of consumer electronics products headquartered in Lake Success, New York, with offices and factories around the world (including the United States, Mexico, and China). With the joint efforts of Coby Electronics Co. of Hong Kong and Coby Electronics Corp. of the United States the products reached consumers in Asia, North America, South America and Europe; however, the company mostly sold in Europe and the United States.

Hooper (coachbuilder)
Hooper & Co. was a British coachbuilding company based in Westminster London. From 1805 to 1959 it was a notably successful maker, to special order, of luxury carriages both horse-drawn and motor-powered.

Seibu Class E31
The Class E31 was a class of four DC Bo-Bo wheel arrangement electric locomotives operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway in Japan until March 2010 and subsequently by the Ōigawa Railway.Four locomotives (numbered E31 to E34) were built at Seibu's Tokorozawa factory between 1986 and 1987 to replace ageing first-generation electric locomotives on freight services and track maintenance train duties.

Krupp
The Krupp family (see pronunciation), a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their production of steel, artillery, ammunition, and other armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. It was important to weapons development and production in both world wars.

Tooth Protectors
Tooth Protectors is a rare video game for the Atari 2600 video game console. It was released exclusively via mail order in 1983 by American pharmaceutical and consumer goods manufacturer Johnson & Johnson.

Toy Story Toons
Toy Story Toons is a series of short animated films based on the Toy Story franchise. The plotline of the series begins after Toy Story 3. The films are set at Bonnie's house, the new home of Andy's toys. As of 2014, three shorts have been released as part of the series – Hawaiian Vacation and Small Fry in 2011 and Partysaurus Rex in 2012. A fourth short, titled Mythic Rock, was rumored in 2013.

Jowett
Jowett was a manufacturer of light cars and light commercial vehicles in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1906 to 1954.


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Peco is a UK-based manufacturer of model railway accessories, especially trackwork, based at Pecorama, Beer in South Devon, England.Peco is the collective name for the Pritchard Patent Product Company Ltd, Peco Publications and Publicity Ltd, and Pecorama. Founded in 1946 in a small cottage, Peco now distributes worldwide.

Radio-controlled model
A radio-controlled model (or RC model) is a model that is steerable with the use of radio control. All types of vehicles imaginable have had RC systems installed in them, including cars, boats, planes, and even helicopters and scale railway locomotives.

Heinz
The H. J. Heinz Company, or Heinz, is an American food processing company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  It was founded by Henry Heinz in 1869.  The H. J. Heinz Company manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six continents, and markets these products in more than 200 countries and territories.  The company claims to have 150 number-one or number two-brands worldwide.

Kullman Building Corporation
Kullman Dining Car Company, established in Newark, New Jersey in 1927, originally manufactured  diners. The company expanded and later became the Kullman Building Corporation. It relocated to Avenel and finally to Clinton Township  (with corporate offices in Lebanon) and over the years production grew to include prefabricated housing, dormitories, prisons, schools, banks, equipment buildings of cellular communications towers.

Gmunden Tramway
The Gmunden Tramway (Straßenbahn Gmunden or Gmundner Straßenbahn), located in Gmunden, Austria, is the shortest and oldest remaining tram system in Austria. It is operated by Stern & Hafferl, which was founded in 1893. The tramway was opened on 13 August 1894.  It is 2.3 km long.  The line's maximum gradient of 9.6% makes it one of the world's steepest surviving adhesion-only tram lines.

Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is an American electronics company that designs and makes semiconductors, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally.

Collectable
A collectable (collectible or collector's item) is any object regarded as being of value or interest to a collector (not necessarily monetarily valuable or antique). There are numerous types of collectables and terms to denote those types. An antique is a collectable that is old. A curio is a small, usually fascinating or unusual item sought after by collectors. A manufactured collectable is an item made specifically for people to collect.

Hoffman (Cleveland automobile)
The Hoffman Automobile and Manufacturing Company was founded in 1900 by French immigrant Louis Hoffman and based in Cleveland, Ohio.  The first cars went on sale in 1902. The original versions ran on steam, but the business eventually accepted the internal combustion engine. Hoffman departed the company in 1903.It was later renamed the Royal Motor Company.

Zierer
Zierer is a German company located close to Deggendorf. Zierer manufactures Tivoli and Force line of roller coasters, as well as panoramic wheels, wave swingers, flying carpets, Hextentanz and Kontiki rides. The company also has partnered with Schwarzkopf to build Lisebergbanan at Liseberg and Knightmare at Camelot Theme Park.

Passauer Eisenbahnfreunde
The Passauer Eisenbahnfreunde (Passau Railway Society) or PEF is a German railway society with the aim of preserving historic railway vehicles in working order in order to operate them.The society was founded in 1978 in Passau. In  2007 it had about 190 members and is registered as a limited company (e. V.).

Scandinavian Tobacco Group
Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) is the world’s largest manufacturer of cigars and pipe tobacco. The group employs 9,500 people in, among other countries, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Europe, Australia and the United States. The company is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is owned by the Danish Augustinus and C. W. Obel foundations, and Swedish Match.


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Plasticville is a brand of plastic toy train building sold in the United States, made by formerly Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Bachmann Industries since 1947 (although they were first advertised in 1946).

Barker (coachbuilder)
Barker & Co. was a coachbuilder, a maker of luxurious carriages and in the 20th century bodywork for very expensive prestige cars.

Seibu Class E31
The Class E31 was a class of four DC Bo-Bo wheel arrangement electric locomotives operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway in Japan until March 2010 and subsequently by the Ōigawa Railway.Four locomotives (numbered E31 to E34) were built at Seibu's Tokorozawa factory between 1986 and 1987 to replace ageing first-generation electric locomotives on freight services and track maintenance train duties.

Tatra (company)
Tatra is a vehicle manufacturer in Kopřivnice, Czech Republic. The company was founded in 1850 as Schustala & Company, later renamed Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft when it became a wagon and carriage manufacturer. In 1897, Tatra produced the first motor car in central Europe, the Präsident automobile.

Steinberg's (electronics store)
Steinberg's Inc. (/ˈstaɪnbərɡz/ US dict: stīn′·bərgz) was a chain of stores in the Eastern United States that specialized in consumer electronics and home appliances. The Reading, Ohio–based company was founded by Ely Steinberg in 1921, and the Steinberg family continued to own the chain until its bankruptcy and liquidation in 1997.

Chieftain Products
Chieftain Products was a Canada-based toy & game company which released games such as Scrabble, Atmosfear, etc. Founded in 1972 by Edward J. Scott in Toronto, Ontario, this toy company was closed down in 1996 after the release of Atmosfear 4. It moved in 1980 to Downsview, Ontario.

Stiebel Eltron
Stiebel Eltron is a company based in Holzminden, Germany that manufactures central heating products such as heat pumps. The UK office was set up on the Wirral Peninsula in 2008. The company dates back to 1924 in Berlin, when Dr. Theodor Stiebel founded Stiebel Eltron. Today it is one of the world’s leading green energy low carbon specialists manufacturing ground, air and water source heat pumps. It further produces ventilation and air conditioning and systems technologies.

Mazda
Mazda Motor Corporation (マツダ株式会社, Matsuda Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly referred to just as Mazda, is a Japanese automaker based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.In 2007, Mazda produced almost 1.3 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly 1 million) were produced in the company's Japanese plants, with the remainder coming from a variety of other plants worldwide. In 2011, Mazda was the fifteenth biggest automaker by production worldwide.

Remaco Spur
The Remaco Spur was a 1.6 mi (2.6 km) US government-owned railway line constructed from the Golden-Denver "Tramway Route 84" (Denver Tramway Corporation's  for transporting supplies and munitions to/from the Denver Ordnance Plant in Lakewood, Colorado.  The line connected between Oak and Quail streets at the Morningside shelter and was operated by the Remington Arms Company with railyard trackage in the Denver Ordnance Zone of ~11 mi (18 km).[1]

Kullman Building Corporation
Kullman Dining Car Company, established in Newark, New Jersey in 1927, originally manufactured  diners. The company expanded and later became the Kullman Building Corporation. It relocated to Avenel and finally to Clinton Township  (with corporate offices in Lebanon) and over the years production grew to include prefabricated housing, dormitories, prisons, schools, banks, equipment buildings of cellular communications towers.

Modelguns
Modelguns are Japanese replica or toy guns, which are usually made of zinc-alloy or plastic materials.Most modelguns are designed to replicate the physical outlook and in full scale of the real gun counterpart. Some bear the authentic markings that make them look very realistic like real guns.


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Playmobil (/pleɪmoʊˈbiːl/) is a line of toys produced by the Brandstätter Group (Geobra Brandstätter GmbH & Co KG), headquartered in Zirndorf, Germany.The signature Playmobil toy is a 7.5 cm (approximately 3 inch) tall (1:24 scale) human figure, in its early days known as a \klicky\"."

DAF Trucks
DAF Trucks NV is a Dutch truck manufacturing company and a division of Paccar. Its headquarters and main plant are in Eindhoven.  Cabs and axle assemblies are produced at its Westerlo plant in Belgium. Some of the truck models sold with the DAF brand are designed and built by Leyland Trucks at their Farington plant in Preston, England.

Mazda
Mazda Motor Corporation (マツダ株式会社, Matsuda Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly referred to just as Mazda, is a Japanese automaker based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.In 2007, Mazda produced almost 1.3 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly 1 million) were produced in the company's Japanese plants, with the remainder coming from a variety of other plants worldwide. In 2011, Mazda was the fifteenth biggest automaker by production worldwide.

Road train
A road train, roadtrain or land train is a method of trucking used in remote areas of Argentina, Australia, Mexico, the United States, and Canada to move freight efficiently. The term, road train, is most often used in Australia. In the United States, the terms, triples, turnpike doubles, and Rocky Mountain doubles are commonly used for longer combination vehicles (LCVs).

Modelguns
Modelguns are Japanese replica or toy guns, which are usually made of zinc-alloy or plastic materials.Most modelguns are designed to replicate the physical outlook and in full scale of the real gun counterpart. Some bear the authentic markings that make them look very realistic like real guns.

Zodiac Seats UK
Zodiac Seats UK (formerly known as Contour Aerospace, and previously, L.A. Rumbold) is a United Kingdom-based airline seat manufacturer.The modern day Contour was formed by the merger of two rival companies. L.A. Rumbold, founded in 1933 by Louis Arthur Rumbold in Acton, West London, and Contour Seats of Farnborough founded by Les Horrocks. L.A. Rumbold supplied various aircraft components.

Aerospace manufacturer
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft.

Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (or narrow-gauge railroad) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) of standard gauge railways.

Smith Flyer
The Smith Flyer was an American automobile manufactured by the A.O. Smith Company in Milwaukee from 1915 until about 1919 when the manufacturing rights were sold to Briggs & Stratton and it was renamed to Briggs & Stratton Flyer. The Smith Flyer is a small, simple, lightweight, two-seat vehicle with a wooden frame that doubles as the body and as the suspension.  A small gasoline engine is mounted on a fifth wheel, or motor wheel, to drive the Flyer.

Jowett
Jowett was a manufacturer of light cars and light commercial vehicles in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1906 to 1954.

Catskill Mountain Railway
The Catskill Mountain Railway (CMRy) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad, 15.73 miles (25.31 km) long, running from Catskill to Palenville in Greene County, New York.Organized as the Catskill Mountain Railroad (CMRR) in 1880, construction was begun in 1881 and completed in 1882.   Unlike most railroads, the CMRR was built primarily for the purpose of transporting passengers and intended to operate seasonally.


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Rivarossi is one of the world's most famous Italian manufacturer of model railways. In 2004 it was acquired by Hornby Railways.

Elsie Stix
Elsie Sticks were plastic ice cream sticks which became useful as an interlocking toy after the ice cream bar was eaten. They were produced in the early 1970s through Borden, Inc., dairy in the United States.Historically, Elsie Sticks appear to have emerged in the 1950s with U.S. Patent 2,844,910 a construction kit made of wooden ice cream sticks by the Southern Ice Cream Company of Kansas City, MO. This patent was extended in 1972 with U.S. Patent 3,663,717 and U.S. Patent 3,748,778.

Coby Electronics Corporation
Coby Electronics Corporation was an American manufacturer of consumer electronics products headquartered in Lake Success, New York, with offices and factories around the world (including the United States, Mexico, and China). With the joint efforts of Coby Electronics Co. of Hong Kong and Coby Electronics Corp. of the United States the products reached consumers in Asia, North America, South America and Europe; however, the company mostly sold in Europe and the United States.

Holden
GM Holden Ltd, commonly known as Holden, is an Australian automaker that operates in Australasia and is headquartered in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was founded in 1856 as a saddlery manufacturer in South Australia. In 1908 it moved into the automotive field, before becoming a subsidiary of the United States-based General Motors (GM) in 1931.

Terex
Terex Corporation is an American manufacturer of a broad range of heavy equipment for a variety of industries, including construction, infrastructure, quarrying, recycling, surface mining, shipping, transportation, refining, utility and maintenance.  The company's major business segments include aerial work platforms, construction cranes, materials processing and mining, and roadbuilding and utility products.

Hyster Company
Hyster is an American manufacturing company specializing in forklifts and other materials-handling equipment.  Hyster was founded in 1929 as the Willamette-Ersted Company in Portland, Oregon.  The company was purchased in 1989 by NACCO Industries, Inc.

Alvarez Guitars
Alvarez is a guitar manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri and founded in 1965. Along with manufacturing acoustic guitars and acoustic-electric guitars, Alvarez also manufactures classical guitars. Originally Alvarez guitars were known by the brand name Westone, but was switched to Alvarez. From 2005 to 2009, the brand was owned by LOUD Technologies, which also owns Mackie, Ampeg, Crate and other music-related brands.

Toy (band)
TOY are an English indie rock/psychedelic rock band from Brighton.

Lokalbahn
A Lokalbahn or Localbahn "\local line", plural: -en) is a German term that usually refers to a railway line worked by local trains serving rural areas, typically in Austria and the south German states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Lokalbahnen appeared at the end of the 19th century before the use of cars became widespread.

Upsy Downsy
Upsy Downsy is a brand developed by Mattel. It concerns two races of strange beings, one that lives rightside-up (The Upsys), the other upside-down (The Downsys). These psychedelic creatures and their fantasy world were featured in a short-lived line of colorful toys and story books for young children in 1969.

Tadano Faun GmbH
Tadano Faun GmbH (own spelling TADANO FAUN) is a German manufacturer of mobile cranes based in the Franconian (Bavaria) town of Lauf an der Pegnitz. It is a 100% subsidiary company of the Japanese Tadano Ltd. All Tadano all-terrain cranes are developed and produced in the plant in Lauf an der Pegnitz and then distributed across the globe by Tadano Faun GmbH’s global sales and service network.Also, cranes are developed and built in Lauf and then mounted on commercial truck frames.


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Superquick Models are a series of printed card kit buildings for the British model railway enthusiast. Manufacturing takes place entirely in the United Kingdom.There are several ranges of model kit - railway buildings in Series A; houses, farm buildings and industrial buildings in Series B; houses and shops in low relief (to line the backs of layouts) in series C and brick and stone textured paper in series D.

Turtle Wax
Turtle Wax is a manufacturer of automotive appearance products. The company was founded by a Chicago entrepreneur named Benjamin Hirsch in 1941 and is currently headquartered in Willowbrook, Illinois. Hirsch family members are involved with the company to this day.

F. Duerr & Sons
F. Duerr & Sons Ltd. is an independent British manufacturer of jam, marmalade, peanut butter and preserves, based in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England.Founded in 1881 by Frederick Duerr, and originally based at his home in Heywood, Lancashire, the company moved to premises at Guide Bridge, Audenshaw in 1884.

Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum
The Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum (RGVRRM) is an operating railroad museum located in Industry, New York.  The museum started in 1971 with the purchase of a former Erie Railroad Depot from the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. Since then the museum has grown to include a two mile long demonstration railroad operated in conjunction with the New York Museum of Transportation (NYMT), making it one of the only operating railroad museums in New York State.

Peugeot
For the article about the bicycle manufacturer, see Cycles Peugeot.Peugeot (US /puːˈʒoʊ/; UK /ˈpɜrʒoʊ/; French pronunciation: [pøʒo]) is a French cars brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën.The family business that preceded the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion trademark.

Manufacture d'armes de Bayonne
Manufacture d'armes de Bayonne (sometimes also called Manufacture d’Armes Automatiques de Bayonne) was a French pistol manufacturer. The company was founded by Léon Barthe in 1920. It survived the German occupation during World War II, and after several changes in ownership wound up being a subsidiary of Fabrique Nationale of Herstal sometime in the 1970s.  MAB made parts for FN under their ownership, but eventually was forced to close in September 1982.

Brindley & Foster
Brindley & Foster was a pipe organ builder based in Sheffield who flourished between 1854 and 1939.

R.J. Corman Railroad Group
R.J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC is a privately held railroad holding company with its corporate headquarters located in Nicholasville, KY. It was owned by Richard J. Corman, who established the company in 1973, and ran it until his death on August 23, 2013.

Holden
GM Holden Ltd, commonly known as Holden, is an Australian automaker that operates in Australasia and is headquartered in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was founded in 1856 as a saddlery manufacturer in South Australia. In 1908 it moved into the automotive field, before becoming a subsidiary of the United States-based General Motors (GM) in 1931.

Rayner (company)
Rayner based in Brighton & Hove East Sussex is a British manufacturer of intraocular lenses and associated surgical instruments. With Sir Harold Ridley, they were pioneers in the field from 1949 when Ridley successfully implanted the first intraocular lens (IOL) at St Thomas' Hospital, London.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Limited (KHI) (川崎重工業株式会社, Kawasaki Jūkōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) /kaʊ.əˈsɑːki/ is an international corporation based in Japan.  It has headquarters in both Chūō-ku, Kobe and Minato, Tokyo.The company is named after its founder Shōzō Kawasaki and has no connection with the city of Kawasaki, Kanagawa.


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The Toy Train Depot is a toy store and railway museums, featuring scale models of train locomotives and passenger and freight cars, in Alamogordo, New Mexico.The Toy Train Depot is also home to America's Park Ride Train Museum, which runs the Alamogordo/Alameda Park Narrow Gauge Railway, a working, 16 in (406 mm) gauge miniature railway that visitors can ride for a nominal fee.

Farrow & Ball
Farrow & Ball are an English manufacturer of paints, and wallpapers largely based upon historic colour palettes and archives. Their colour names, such as Elephant's Breath, have become talking points  in themselves.

History of Nintendo
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It was originally founded in 1889 to produce handmade hanafuda cards. It eventually became one of the most prominent figures in today's video game industry, being the world's largest video game company by revenue.

LVS-86
LVS-86 is a model of tramcar developed at the Leningrad Tram Manufacturing Plant in the former Soviet Union. LVS stands for "Leningrad-made articulated tram" in Russian, and 86 refers to the model year. The design was based on the LVS-80 tramcar. 473 LVS-86s were built from 1987 until 1997. LVS-86s currently run in Saint Petersburg and formerly in Arkhangelsk. Tram operation in Arkhangelsk ceased in July 2004.

Elsie Stix
Elsie Sticks were plastic ice cream sticks which became useful as an interlocking toy after the ice cream bar was eaten. They were produced in the early 1970s through Borden, Inc., dairy in the United States.Historically, Elsie Sticks appear to have emerged in the 1950s with U.S. Patent 2,844,910 a construction kit made of wooden ice cream sticks by the Southern Ice Cream Company of Kansas City, MO. This patent was extended in 1972 with U.S. Patent 3,663,717 and U.S. Patent 3,748,778.

Gamo (air gun manufacturer)
Gamo is an airgun manufacturer. The company is based in Spain and is the largest producer of guns and rifles in Europe, and the largest producer of pellets in the world. The company was founded in 1959, as El Gamo, and airgun production first started in 1961. Today Gamo production includes rifles, pistols, ammunition and optics.

Monorail
A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail, typically elevated. The term is also used to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or track.

NYC S-Motor
S-Motor was the class designation given by the New York Central to its ALCO-GE built S-1, S-2, S-2a and S-3 electric locomotives. The S-Motors hold the distinction of being the world's first mass-produced main line electric locomotives with the prototype #6000 being constructed in 1904.  The S-Motors would serve alone until the more powerful T-motors began to arrive in 1913, eventually displacing them from main line passenger duties.

F. Duerr & Sons
F. Duerr & Sons Ltd. is an independent British manufacturer of jam, marmalade, peanut butter and preserves, based in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England.Founded in 1881 by Frederick Duerr, and originally based at his home in Heywood, Lancashire, the company moved to premises at Guide Bridge, Audenshaw in 1884.

Tadano Faun GmbH
Tadano Faun GmbH (own spelling TADANO FAUN) is a German manufacturer of mobile cranes based in the Franconian (Bavaria) town of Lauf an der Pegnitz. It is a 100% subsidiary company of the Japanese Tadano Ltd. All Tadano all-terrain cranes are developed and produced in the plant in Lauf an der Pegnitz and then distributed across the globe by Tadano Faun GmbH’s global sales and service network.Also, cranes are developed and built in Lauf and then mounted on commercial truck frames.

Hungarian Technical and Transportation Museum
The Magyar Műszaki és Közlekedési Múzeum "\Hungarian Technical and Transportation Museum"), still often referred to with its former name, Közlekedési Múzeum ("Transportation Museum"), is a museum in Budapest, Hungary. It is one of Europe’s oldest transportation collections.The museum has a unique collection of locomotives and railway cars on a 1:5 scale. This means that a locomotive of, for example, 10 m length is reproduced with all details in a 2 m length model.


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Tillig (TILLIG Modellbahnen GmbH & Co. KG) is a German model railroad manufacturing company based in Sebnitz, Saxony. Tillig is the largest manufacturer of TT scale model railroad products in the world.

Jowett
Jowett was a manufacturer of light cars and light commercial vehicles in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1906 to 1954.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles
Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. is a subsidiary of the German Daimler AG.  This company designs, manufactures, and sells commercial vehicles that cater to the demands of Indian customers and are designed with nation's terrain in mind. These vehicles are branded as "BharatBenz", "Mercedes Benz" and "Fuso".After starting production in June 2012, the first heavy-duty truck was launched in September 2012.

British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.  It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toy line)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a film which has an associated toy line released in 2009 by Hasbro (Takara Tomy in Japan). The film, and thus the toy line, is based on the original Transformers media franchise. Releases in this toy line ran from May 2009 to early 2010. The 2007 toy line proved to be a retail hit, selling even 18 months after the first film was released.Pictures of the first Revenge of the Fallen toys started to appear in on the internet in late 2008.

Artificial Christmas tree
Artificial Christmas trees are artificial pine and fir trees manufactured for the specific purpose of use as a Christmas tree. The earliest artificial Christmas trees were wooden, tree-shaped pyramids or feather trees, both developed by Germans. Most modern trees are made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) but many other types of trees have been and are available, including aluminum Christmas trees and fiber-optic illuminated Christmas trees.

Gmunden Tramway
The Gmunden Tramway (Straßenbahn Gmunden or Gmundner Straßenbahn), located in Gmunden, Austria, is the shortest and oldest remaining tram system in Austria. It is operated by Stern & Hafferl, which was founded in 1893. The tramway was opened on 13 August 1894.  It is 2.3 km long.  The line's maximum gradient of 9.6% makes it one of the world's steepest surviving adhesion-only tram lines.

Omnibot
The Omnibot (オムニボット) is a toy robot originally manufactured by Tomy in the mid-1980s. The name then came to  apply to the successful line of robots manufactured by the company. The initial Omnibot was announced with expectations of restoring popular interest in robots, at a time when it was becoming obvious that robots with advanced AI such as R2-D2 were still a long way away. A more advanced version of the Omnibot was called the Omnibot 2000 and did not have a plastic bubble over its head.

History of IBM
International Business Machines, or IBM, nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century.

Lokalbahn
A Lokalbahn or Localbahn "\local line", plural: -en) is a German term that usually refers to a railway line worked by local trains serving rural areas, typically in Austria and the south German states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Lokalbahnen appeared at the end of the 19th century before the use of cars became widespread.

V-Guard Industries
V-Guard Industries Ltd is a major electrical appliances manufacturer in India, and the largest in the state of Kerala with an annual turnover of ₹ 17.50 billion. It manufactures voltage stabilizers, wiring cables, electric pumps, electric motors, geysers, solar water heaters, electric fans and UPSs. It was founded in 1977 by Kochouseph Chittilappilly as a small voltage stabilizer manufacturing unit.


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Tomy Company, Ltd. (株式会社タカラトミー, Kabushikigaisha takaratomī, Takara Tomy) is a Japanese toy, children's merchandise and entertainment company created from the merger of two companies:  Tomy (founded in 1924 as Tomiyama, changing the name to Tomy in 1963) and long-time rival Takara (founded in 1955). Merged on March 1, 2006, the company has its headquarters in Katsushika, Tokyo.

Road train
A road train, roadtrain or land train is a method of trucking used in remote areas of Argentina, Australia, Mexico, the United States, and Canada to move freight efficiently. The term, road train, is most often used in Australia. In the United States, the terms, triples, turnpike doubles, and Rocky Mountain doubles are commonly used for longer combination vehicles (LCVs).

Vought Airtrans
LTV's (Vought) Airtrans was an automated people mover system that operated at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport between 1974 and 2005. The adaptable people mover was utilized for several separate systems: the Airport Train, Employee Train, American Airlines TrAAin and utility service.

Bentley
Bentley Motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is a British registered company that designs, develops, and manufactures Bentley luxury motorcars which are largely hand-built. It is a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG.  Now based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited was founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 January 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.

Michelin
Michelin (/ˈmɪʃəlɪn/ or /ˈmɪtʃəlɪn/; French pronunciation: [miʃˈlɛ̃]; full name: SCA Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin) is a tire manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne région of France. It is one of the three largest tire manufacturers in the world along with Bridgestone and Goodyear. In addition to the Michelin brand, it also owns the BFGoodrich, Kleber, Tigar, Riken, Kormoran and Uniroyal (in North America) tire brands.

John Marston (businessman)
John Marston (1836-1918) was a successful Victorian bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer and founder of the Sunbeam company of Wolverhampton. His company was also one of the country's largest manufacturers of japanware and he was responsible for building 'Seagull' outboard engines for marine use and also for starting the Villiers engineering company. He was Mayor of Wolverhampton for two consecutive years and died in 1918 aged 82.

Sony
Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社, Sonī Kabushiki Gaisha), commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified business is primarily focused on the Consumer and Professional electronics with divisions Gaming, Entertainment and Financial services sectors. The company is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets.

Kay Musical Instrument Company
Kay Musical Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer of the United States, in operation since the 1930s until the 1960s. It was established in 1931 at Chicago, Illinois by Henry Kay Kuhrmeyer, from the assets of the former Stromberg-Voisinet, which was founded as Groeschel Mandolin Company in 1890. Kay offered their first electric guitar in 1936—five years after the Rickenbacker Frying pan, and the same year as the Gibson ES-150.

Harp switch stand
A harp switch stand is a type of railroad switch stand that was most common during the 19th century in the United States.  The name derives from the characteristic shape of the stand. The harp stand was typically used in conjunction with the stub switch.  It remained in use longest among narrow gauge railroads such as the Denver & Rio Grande well into the 20th century.The harp mechanism was a simple lever which pivoted on an axle pin located midway up the main body (the "frame") of the stand.

Defy Appliances
Defy Appliances is a South African white goods manufacturing company and is the largest manufacturer and distributor of major domestic appliances in southern Africa.

Bieszczadzka Forest Railway
Bieszczadzka Forest Railway (Polish: Bieszczadzka Kolejka Leśna) is a 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) narrow gauge railway built in a sparsely populated, forest region of Bieszczady Mountains. Construction commenced at the end of 19th century and completed before the World War I. Nowadays, a part of the railway is utilized as a tourist attraction. Trains run regularly on weekends from the beginning of May till the end of September.


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Trix is a German company that originally made Trix metal construction sets. In 1935 it began producing the electrically powered model trains that it became famous for, under the Trix Express label. Prior to the outbreak of World War II the Trix company produced a small range of fairly unrealistic AC powered three rail models running at 14 volts.

Maule Air
Maule Air, Inc. is a manufacturer of light, single-engined, short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft, based in Moultrie, Georgia, USA. The company delivered 2,500 aircraft in its first 50 years of business.

Toms Shoes
Toms (stylized as TOMS) is a for-profit company based in Playa Del Rey, California, that operated the now defunct non-profit subsidiary, Friends of Toms. The company was founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie, an entrepreneur from Arlington, Texas.  The company designs and sells shoes based on the Argentine alpargata design as well as eyewear.

Diamant (bicycle)
Diamant is a bicycle brand name used by two separate companies, one in Germany and one in Norway.

Lenox (company)
Lenox is an American company that sells tabletop, giftware and collectible products under the Lenox, Dansk and Gorham brands. They are the only major manufacturer of bone china in the United States.

List of American Girl video games
As a franchise, various characters from the American Girl series of books and toys have appeared in their respective video games. American Girl is an American line of 18-inch dolls released in 1986 by Pleasant Company, which portray ten-year-old and nine-year-old girls of a variety of ethnicities living in various times throughout American history. They are sold with accompanying books told from the viewpoint of the girls.Provided here is a list of all American Girl video games.

Crown-Ikarus 286
The Crown-Ikarus 286 is a type of transit bus that was manufactured for the U.S. market from 1980 until 1986, under a joint venture between the Ikarus Body and Coach Works (Ikarus), of Budapest, Hungary, and Crown Coach Corporation from Los Angeles, California in the United States.  Loosely based on the Ikarus 280, the Crown-Ikarus 286 is a high-floor articulated bus.

Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum is located in Portland, Maine, United States. Based out of the Portland Company Marine Complex, the organization was founded in 1993 and contains a collection of rolling stock and artifacts from the 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railways that ran in the state of Maine in the late 19th century and early 20th century.The organization operates a 1½ mile long railroad that runs along the waterfront of Casco Bay and parallels Portland's Eastern Promenade.

Road train
A road train, roadtrain or land train is a method of trucking used in remote areas of Argentina, Australia, Mexico, the United States, and Canada to move freight efficiently. The term, road train, is most often used in Australia. In the United States, the terms, triples, turnpike doubles, and Rocky Mountain doubles are commonly used for longer combination vehicles (LCVs).

Rayner (company)
Rayner based in Brighton & Hove East Sussex is a British manufacturer of intraocular lenses and associated surgical instruments. With Sir Harold Ridley, they were pioneers in the field from 1949 when Ridley successfully implanted the first intraocular lens (IOL) at St Thomas' Hospital, London.

Oldsmobile
Oldsmobile was a registered trademark of American automobiles produced for most of its existence by General Motors. Olds Motor Vehicle Co. was founded by Ransom E. Olds in 1897. In its 107-year history, it produced 35.2 million cars, including at least 14 million built at its Lansing, Michigan factory. When it was phased out in 2004, Oldsmobile was the oldest surviving American automobile marque, and one of the oldest in the world, after Daimler, Peugeot and Tatra.


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Tyco Toys was an American toy manufacturer. Since 1997, it had been a division of Mattel, Inc along with Thomas & Friends and Barbie.

Stiebel Eltron
Stiebel Eltron is a company based in Holzminden, Germany that manufactures central heating products such as heat pumps. The UK office was set up on the Wirral Peninsula in 2008. The company dates back to 1924 in Berlin, when Dr. Theodor Stiebel founded Stiebel Eltron. Today it is one of the world’s leading green energy low carbon specialists manufacturing ground, air and water source heat pumps. It further produces ventilation and air conditioning and systems technologies.

World Dryer
World Dryer Corporation is a Berkeley, Illinois based manufacturer of hand dryers and related products. Established in 1950 with the Model A, it is an ISO 9002 certified company, briefly a subsidiary of Beatrice Foods, and has been a subsidiary of Carrier Corporation since 2000.

Monorail
A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail, typically elevated. The term is also used to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or track.

Tram
A tram (also known as tramcar; and in North America known as streetcar, trolley or trolley car), is a rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets (called street running), and also sometimes on a segregated right of way. The lines or networks operated by tramcars are called tramways. Tramways powered by electricity, the most common type historically, were once called electric street railways.

Toy (band)
TOY are an English indie rock/psychedelic rock band from Brighton.

Zojirushi Corporation
The Zojirushi Corporation (象印マホービン株式会社, Zōjirushi Mahōbin Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational manufacturer and marketer of vacuum flasks, AIR POT Beverage Dispensers, GRAVITY POT Beverage Dispensers and consumer electronics including  bread machines, electric kettles, hot water dispensers, electric water boilers, refrigerators and rice cookers.  It has a branch in South Korea and subsidiary companies in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and the United States.

Arighi Bianchi
Arighi Bianchi is a furniture shop in the town of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.  It was founded in 1854 by Italian immigrants Antonio Arighi and Antonio Bianchi who originated from the village of Casnate on the shores of Lake Como.The shop is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It has a cast iron and glass frontage, and stands close to Macclesfield Station and Tesco.

Diamant (bicycle)
Diamant is a bicycle brand name used by two separate companies, one in Germany and one in Norway.

Tooth Protectors
Tooth Protectors is a rare video game for the Atari 2600 video game console. It was released exclusively via mail order in 1983 by American pharmaceutical and consumer goods manufacturer Johnson & Johnson.

Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of conveyance of passengers and goods, by way of wheeled vehicles running on rails. It is also commonly referred to as train transport. In contrast to road transport, where vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles are also directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Track usually consists of steel rails, installed on ties (sleepers) and ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves.