Tri-Ang Toys The Story of Lines Brothers

Name: Tri-Ang Toys The Story of Lines Brothers
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ISBN: 9780747811442

ISBN-10: 074781144X

ISBN-13: 9780747811442

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kenneth Brown

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Wherever in the world today children play with toys, the odds are that their playthings will have been made in the Far East and carry the imprint of a major American Corporation like Mattel or Hasbro. It was not always so: for much of the twentieth century, it was the British firm of Lines Brothers which claimed to be the Earth's largest toy manufacturer, growing so rapidly after its foundation in the 1920s that it became the world's first multi-national toy enterprise. Aided by ownership of the internationally-renowned toy shop, Hamleys of London, manufacturing plants in Europe and the major countries of the Commonwealth made generations of children familiar with the firm's Tri-ang brand…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 8/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 56
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.26" long x 0.17" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Background and Origins, 1876-1919


Early Development, 1919-29


Masters of the British Market, 1929-39


War and Post-War Expansion, 1939-55


Toymakers to the World, 1955-66


The End of Lines Brothers, 1966-71


Places to Visit


Further Reading


Index