WW II helped kill S.. OO went out due to Elliot Donnelly taking over the family publishing company. He always kept OO going due to his wealth. It was good. Most of it got converted to O Narrow Gauge.
Walthers always had ads in MR during the war to keep them going. The S gauge world never quite came back. Athearn and another outfit swamped HO with all those super car kits. Mantua maintained a steady flow along with Varney. The S manufacturers never pushed to the same degree. Flyer pretty much stayed the same. Leonard Blum purchased Flyer (I saw the papers). A certain personality from NY City yanked it out from under him. That was the only time I ever saw Leonard afraid for himself (even as a lawyer) TT came along but flopped due to the manufacturers dislike of detail (went there twice). Two other outfits started making cars but even with high detail a cheap plastic used warped everything IN THE BOX MR decided to pull back support for OO AND S (I got that from 2 friends in the company). There are other reasons as well. That O gauge outfit with the F-3 and steam loco kit made a big hit (BTS now owns it. At least the steam part.) HO parts dies fit most die cast and plastic molding machines. Maybe it's the fault of the eye glass manufacturers. I got involved with 1:1 scale and traction. John Armstrong ----- Original Message ----- From: gsc3 To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 8:34 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Post on S After writing the last post and reading it, I meant to delete it and not sent it. It got sent by mistake. Hopefully I didn't put my name on it and our good listowners have my permission and request to delete my prior post about S growing. Thanks, George Courtney
