Category:Tri-ang water-going ships and boats
Tri-Ang produced a range of plastic-bodied boats in the 1940s under the Penguin sub-brand (Penguin being in possession of a plastic injection moulding machine).
Branding for the plastic boats and ships
The Tri-ang boat range was the classic example of Lines Brothers' enthusiasm for branding. Some of the boats might be variously branded as:
- Lines Brothers (the company),
- Tri-ang (the company's main marque),
- International Model Aircraft or IMA (a manufacturing group/factory within Lines Brothers),
- FROG ( IMA's main brand-name for flying model aircraft, for "Flies Right Off Ground"), or
- Penguin, the sub-sub-sub-brand for FROG model aircraft that didn't actually fly (as a penguin was a non-flying bird).
Since this boat was manufactured by IMA, and didn't fly, it was a "FROG Penguin" - perhaps with the rather strained retrospective logic that although penguins couldn't fly, they could swim.
In Tri-ang's latter years, this cascading and confusing range of potential brandnames was downplayed in favour of a new brandname for the whole range: Scalex Boats.
Various models were packaged or advertised under various multiple combinations of these brandnames, and some of the longer-lived Triang boat products have probably at one time or another used almost all of them.
Yachts
- k Yachts (a range of steel-bodied boats that Lines Brothers took over),
Pages in category ‘Tri-ang water-going ships and boats’
The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Media in category ‘Tri-ang water-going ships and boats’
The following 14 files are in this category, out of 14 total.
- Avon 17-inch electric Ocean-going Cruiser (Tri-ang 432S).jpg 1,600 × 901; 647 KB
- Avon 17-inch electric Ocean-going Cruiser, detail.jpg 1,600 × 1,067; 701 KB
- Avon Ocean-going Cruiser, Tri-ang 432S (BLCat 1962).jpg 1,328 × 879; 208 KB
- Coastal Steamer No1, British Trader, 2927 (TriangCat 1937).jpg 1,386 × 1,669; 350 KB
- Derwent Cabin Cruiser, Tri-ang 414S (BLCat 1962).jpg 1,255 × 870; 187 KB
- Jack in a Boat, Triang Minic (MinicCat 1950).jpg 1,259 × 994; 439 KB
- Jack In A Boat, Triang Minic (MM 1950-06).jpg 2,072 × 3,000; 678 KB
- Jack In A Boat, Triang Minic (MM 1951-05).jpg 1,241 × 1,145; 202 KB
- Jack-In-A-Boat (Tri-ang).jpg 1,800 × 1,200; 1.38 MB
- Mechanical Horse and Trailer with 6in Cruiser, Triang Minic (MinicCat 1950).jpg 1,573 × 715; 174 KB
- Ocean Trader electric r-c cargo ship, Tri-Ang, Gamages (MM 1956-04).jpg 2,170 × 655; 185 KB
- Thames clockwork Cabin Cruiser (Tri-ang 413S).jpg 1,800 × 1,056; 813 KB
- Thames clockwork Cabin Cruiser, box (Tri-ang 413S).jpg 2,000 × 686; 665 KB
- Tugboat Mary Thames Tug, Tri-ang Penguin (MM 1947-07).jpg 1,796 × 2,500; 395 KB