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==Trix metal construction sets==
==Trix metal construction sets==
{{Box|Moto_Trix_closeup.jpg|close-up of a Trix constructor set, showing the Trix system's three rows of holes}}  
{{Box|Moto_Trix_closeup.jpg|close-up of a Trix constructor set, showing the Trix system's three rows of holes}}  
Trix had originally built metal "Meccano-like" construction sets, but unlike many Meccano clones, the Trix products had their own distinctive system, which involved strips having three staggered lines of holes, so that as well as being able to be rigidly bolted together inline (like Meccano), they coudlalso be connected at an angle, without needing additional cross-struts.
Trix had originally built metal "Meccano-like" construction sets, but unlike many [[Meccano]] clones, the Trix products had their own distinctive system, which involved strips having three staggered lines of holes, so that as well as being able to be rigidly bolted together inline (like Meccano), they coudlalso be connected at an angle, without needing additional cross-struts.


This three-hole system gave rise to the Trix name.
This three-hole system gave rise to the Trix name.

Revision as of 14:38, 6 October 2012

The Trix company represented a largely informal partnership between the Bing brothers and their staff (who were finding it increasingly difficult to operate in Germany is the build-up to WW2) and Bassett-Lowke, their main UK distributor, in producing new, smaller train sets for the emerging 00-gauge market.

Trix metal construction sets

close-up of a Trix constructor set, showing the Trix system's three rows of holes

close-up of a Trix constructor set, showing the Trix system's three rows of holes [image info]

Trix had originally built metal "Meccano-like" construction sets, but unlike many Meccano clones, the Trix products had their own distinctive system, which involved strips having three staggered lines of holes, so that as well as being able to be rigidly bolted together inline (like Meccano), they coudlalso be connected at an angle, without needing additional cross-struts.

This three-hole system gave rise to the Trix name.

Trix Twin Railway (TTR)

Trix Twin Railways promotion for their Coronation Scot set (1937)

Trix Twin Railways promotion for their Coronation Scot set (1937) [image info]

Trix are associated with two main model railway product lines, Trix Express and Trix Twin.

Trix Twin Railway (TTR) was a system that allowed independent control of two separate locomotives on a single common layout using three-rail track and two separate controllers. The two outer rails were used as separate independent power lines, and the centre rail was "common".

Trix included ideas from both companies' personnel, and for a while there appeared to be some internal competition about what the products ought to be called in the UK. A catalogue from 1937 shows the TTR logo and name on almost every page, but the catalogue's cover instead announces "The Bassett-Lowke Twin Train Table Railway".

For a while this tongue-twisting confusion over whether "TT" should be presented as standing for "Trix Twin" or "Twin Train" extended as far as the product packaging, and even to the markings on the models themselves, where Trix sometimes apparently supply models with their preferred markings, and Bassett-Lowke would then overpaint them with theirs.

Production moved to a UK factory used by Bassett-Lowke after the Bings finally fled Nazi Germany.

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