> Posted by: "Rusty" [email protected] thebrassbasher
> Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:37 am (PDT)
>
> Do any of you remember just what and who this orignation was. It is in a logo
> printed on the upper left corner of Midgauge Models boxes in blue.
Associated S Gauge Manufacturers appears to have been a short-lived trade group
from the late 1940s.
I found full-page ads in several 1948 issues of Model Railroader magazine that
featured small ads from S scale manufacturers. They were very much like the ads
that appear today on the inside front cover of Railroad Model Craftsman
magazine.
One of the ads listed the Associated S Gauge Manufacturers as a part of the
heading. It had an address at 20 N. Wacker Drive in Chicago. The only supplier
with a Chicago address was S-pikes Equipment Co. at 444 Civic Opera Bldg.
Perhaps there was a connection between the two.
I skimmed the 1949 issues and found only one full-page ad early in the year. In
later issues ads from S suppliers appeared throughout the magazine. Apparently
the Associated S Gauge Manufacturers didn’t last very long.
--
Bill Roberts
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