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Genre: ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / ToysAmerican Flyer Train Sets
On this site, you will find American Flyer train sets offered by some of the top suppliers of electric toy trains and loads of information to assist you to decide which of the American Flyer train sets is best for you.
American Flyer train sets were first manufactured by the American Flyer Manufacturing Corporation in Chicago, Illinois by the toy maker William Frederick Hafner, who developed clockwork engines for toy cars in 1901 while working for a company called Toy Auto Company. According to the recollections of William Hafner's son, John, he had developed a clockwork model train running on O gauge track by 1905.
Hafner's friend, William Ogden Coleman, took control of the Edmonds-Menzel Hardware Company, a struggling hardware manufacturer in Chicago, in 1906 or 1907. Hafner and Coleman began manufacturing toy trains using Edmonds-Menzel's excess production capability after Hafner was able to secure $15,000 worth of orders.
By 1907, two American retailers, G. Somers & Co. and Montgomery Ward, were selling Edmonds-Menzel model trains. In 1908, Edmonds-Menzel adopted the American Flyer brand name for the toy trains, and by 1910, Edmonds-Menzel was out of the hardware business and changed its name to American Flyer Manufacturing Company.
They first made clockwork toy trains and, later on, wide gauge and then O gauge electric trains. In the late 1930's the line of American Flyer train sets was bought by the A.C. Gilbert Company of New Haven Connecticut, headed by A.C. Gilbert, the inventor of Gilbert 'Erector' box sets and many other toys, because Gilbert had already begun the manufacture of an HO gauge line of trains.
During the early 1930's, American Flyer train sets was struggling under increasing competition, especially at the low end of the market.
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