Trix (construction sets)

Trix (construction sets)

Trix model construction sets were originally produced in 1931 by a Nuremberg company, Andreas Förtner (Anfoe). The German patent for the basic Trix pieces had been granted the previous year, in 1930.

The origin of the name Trix is uncertain; it has been suggested (by [http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/A.Wind/starte.html Adrie Wind] ) that it could have referred to the triple-hole configuration of the basic pieces.

A friendship between Stephan Bing, owner of Anfoe, and the English toy manufacturer W J Bassett-Lowke led to the founding of the London company Trix Ltd in 1932. In the United Kingdom, Trix sets challenged the British-invented Meccano model construction sets.

(See Trix (company) for details of the model electric trains that the German company also began producing in 1935).

External links

* [http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/A.Wind/starte.html Adrie Wind's Trix pages]
* [http://www.trix-metaal.nl Trix construction sets] website created by Adrie Wind; contains scans of most Trix manuals and brochures, mainly in Dutch, with some in German and some in English
* [http://home.wanadoo.nl/wiswin-1/Trix%20Metall.htm Trix construction sets models] Many photographs of models built from Trix construction sets


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