ANNOUNCING A "MUST HAVE" REFERENCE BOOK FOR ALL
'LONE STAR' COLLECTORS.
'Lone Star' was originally the Toy Division of Die Casting
Machine Tools Ltd. of 152 Green Lanes, Palmers Green, North
London and, from 1956, also at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, U.K.
The Hatfield production plant, being the last of Lone Star's
three factories to be still manufacturing products, went
into Receivership in 1983. Subsequently, under German
ownership, the Hatfield plant sadly closed down completely
in June 1988. The end of an era!

A high-quality 196-page well-illustrated softback book,
Size 248mm x 185mm at £19.50 plus postage and packing,
still obtainable in limited 'first' edition, lists the
products and explains the intriguing story. Lone Star
was also famous for its die-cast cap-firing pistols and rifles.

"THE BUMPER BOOK OF 'LONE STAR' DIECAST MODELS AND
TOYS 1948-88" compiled by Geoffrey S. Ambridge (son of a co-Founder and also a former employee)

THE BOOK CAN BE ORDERED via any branch of W.H. Smith, Waterstones or other leading retail bookshop, whether in the U.K. or in other countries, simply by quoting the International book identity number: ISBN 0-9539058-0-2
[The retailer will then contact Nielsen BookNet TeleOrdering service].

The 'Lone Star' website (see its URL below) has 'links' to various segments, i.e. selection of products; the company's history including group photos of former staff and factory scenes. Another shows photos of the annual exhibition held at WHITEWEBBS MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT, Crews Hill, ENFIELD, N. London, where Lone Star collections, including 'OOO' gauge model railway layouts, are put on public display by their owners.

www.lone-star-diecast-bk.com/book.html

ASSOCIATED E-DISCUSSION GROUP: (Free)
Treble-0-Gauge@yahoogroups.com
(Discussing Lone Star's Trains)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: (Free-to-view photograph album 1940s-1988)
http://www.photobucket.com/DCMTLonestar/