War Tinplate
Dent Repair Swansea's Craftmanship
Swansea is the second most populous coastal city in Wales and the third most populous county. The city in the middle ages was known for exporting to leather, butter, cheese, grain and wool to England. It also became a port city during the heydays of the coal industry. Iron was also exported from Swansea to England in the 17th century. A lot of people from different countries did migrate to Swansea most especially in the early 20th century when the Kings and Queens Dock were built. These were the boom times for the tinplate, steel and copper industries. These industries came crashing down during the great depression, had a lift during World War II but then slowed down again.
In 1969 Swansea was made a city. Today the population of Swansea is 188,000. Swansea is also home to the Swansea University noted for its sports science department and its post graduate studies on environmental studies, bio engineering and research fields. Swansea also prides itself with a very popular football team that has made forays into the national scene and has won championships to boot.
Swansea is a very popular tourist hub and a lot of visitors frequent the area. There are many places for them to stay in Swansea, among them Morgans Hotel at Somerset Place, Dragons Hotel at Kingsway Circle, Grand Hotel at High street and the Village Hotel and Leisure Club at Fabian Way to name a few. Well known bars that are located in Swansea are the Bar Co at 8-9 Wind Street, Walkabout at 5-6 Castle Square, Morgans Bar at Somerset Place, Pitcher and Piano at 59-60 Wind Street and the very popular Lloyds Bar- Bank Statement at 57-58 Wind Street.
As many visitors take their cars to visit Swansea, there are times when minor accidents happen causing dents to such vehicles. Dent Repair in Swansea is at par with any in Wales. There are many companies that service the Swansea area for dent repair. If the repair is minor you can use a mobile service and have the option of using paintless dent removal which is the fine art of removing dents, dings, and creases from a vehicle without the need for repainting or refinishing the body. Mobile dent repair specialists who cover Swansea can do the jobs while you want provided that no paint jobs need to be done. These dent repair specialists meticulously alter the dent to permanently remove it and restores the panel to its original shape, just like it came out from the factory.
Because of its history, Swansea has a reputation for good craftsmanship, whether it is glove makers, welders or ship builders. This craftsmanship has been transferred to other industries as well. To this, dent repairs in Swansea for automobiles and buses have been getting recognition for their own form of craftsmanship. Cars that have had minor collisions often have their dents repaired in Swansea and it is not odd that some car collectors often have major jobs done at a Swansea car repair shop, least of all dent repairs.
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War Tinplate
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 MTH REISSUE OF LIONEL 263 GRAY PRE WAR TIN PLATE STEAMER EARLY VERSION EX NICE  US $389.95
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 AMERICAN FLYER PRE WAR O GAUGE TIN PLATE PASSENGER SET SUPER NICE US $289.95
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 Lionel Pre War Tinplate Hiawatha 4 car passenger set AS IS for restoration US $266.66
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 LIONEL POST WAR TRAINS 2814R TIN PLATE REEFER ALL ORIG WHITE LT BLUE ALUM FR US $229.95
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 Lionel Pre War Tinplate Hiawatha 250E locomotive tender AS IS for restoration US $194.50
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 LIONEL PRE WAR 2613 BLUE COMET TINPLATE PULLMAN CAR SCRATCHED ROOF US $189.00
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 Lionel tinplate pre war standard gauge 318 locomotive AS IS with box US $127.50
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 A0405 Pre War Marx tin plate O scale Commodore Vanderbilt train set w box Whi US $105.00
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 LIONEL PRE WAR 600 O GAUGE TINPLATE PULLMAN CAR EXC CONDITION US $99.00
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 LIONEL PRE WAR 258 TIN PLATE STEAMER WITH NO TENDER ALL ORIGINAL RUNS GREAT US $75.95
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 VINTAGE LIONEL PRE WAR TINPLATE 812 GONDOLA CAR WITH COPPER JOURNELS BRASS PL US $62.95
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 Lionel tinplate Pre War standard gauge bridge with ramps US $54.02
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Louis Marx & Company
As is common in the stories of many successful entrepreneurs, Louis Marx & Company began with a firing. Louis Marx worked at Ferdinand J. Strass Company after graduating high school. The Strass Company was a mechanical tin toy manufacturer that produced tin toys for Abraham & Strauss Department Stores. They were a pioneer in the tin toy industry. After rising to the position of manager, Louis Marx was fired because of disputes over tin toy production.
After serving in the U.S. Army during World War I, Marx decided to venture out on his own. In 1919, Louis and his brother David established Louis Marx & Company in New York City. They started with nothing but Louis' design talent and energy coupled with David's operational expertise. The company was not originally set up to be a tin toy manufacturer, but a middle man between the toy manufacturer and the retail stores. What would today be called a distributor. They soon began to start manufacturing their own tin toys and lived by two rules that would govern the company and contribute to their success, "Give the customer more toy for less money" and "Quality is not negotiable." The company soon earned the reputation of quality tin toys at low prices, and the Marx brand became noted for its value.
Marx bought his old employer, The Strass Company, in 1922 when Strass fell on hard times. This purchase gave Louis Marx & Company patents and dies to some famous Strass tin toys, Zippo the Climbing Monkey and the Alabama Minstrel Singer. In 1928, the company produced the first Yo-Yo and signed a deal with Sears Roebuck & Co. to carry it.
Despite the Great Depression, the 1930s was a time of rapid growth for Louis Marx & Company. Marx built three new plants in Erie, Pennsylvania, Girard, Pennsylvania, and Glendale, West Virginia. This growth continued until World War II, when the factories were recruited to the war effort and became a supplier for the U.S. Military. After the war, Louis Marx & Company returned to tin toy manufacturing and quickly became the world's largest tin toy manufacturer.
The company grew by leaps and bounds during the "Golden Era" of the 1950s. By 1955 Louis Marx & Company was producing 20% of all the tin toys sold in the U.S. and had factories in ten countries. They produced over 5000 different products including many tinplate toys that had made them famous in the beginning.
During the 1960s the Japanese were flooding the market with mass produced, cheap tin toys. In the 1970s tin started to be replaced with plastic and newer metal alloys. Marx's first plastic toys were disappointing because they lacked durability and they soon switched to polyethylene. In 1972 Louis Marx, now 76, knew it was time to get out and sold the company to Quaker Oats. Under Quaker's corporate culture the company suffered and 3 years later was sold to Dunbee-Combex of England. By 1980 the company filed for bankruptcy and operations were shut down. American Plastic Equipment of Florida acquired the company assets in 1982 and resurrected the Marx name. By 1988, old Marx toys commanded high prices from collectors and demand was triggered to reissue the toys. In 1995 a separate toy company was formed, Marx Toy Corporation, and the tradition of quality tin toys at a value price was reborn.
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