[Tibbs]

Tibbs

Well Scalextric was part of Triang when they were in Havent and when Triang got into trouble the Scalextric factory moved to Margate.

MRRC were in Boscombe which is a suburb of Bournemouth, they sold out to Airfix but seemed to retain a base in Boscombe, at some stage Airfix got in trouble but MRRC kept going and was sold a few times and is now in Germany.

PB Racing who made RC cars (Keith Plested) ran from around 1970 until the early 2000's. As far as I know Keith had no interest in Slot Cars bit Gene Hustings of Associated in the USA who was a slot car driver before getting into RC cars was a strong adversary of Keith's in the 1970's and 80's.

That whole period was great for model car racing.

There was a very good slot driver in Bournemouth called Bob Errington who went onto be a top notch RC car driver.

B.

Thanks mate,
thats really interesting, I'm glad scalextric stuck it out and didn't go pear shape.
Be sad if it disappeared, the more I'm reading through this forum and watching certain youtube vids and having a crack at making things.
You realise it's a real skill in all aspects of this hobby.

Very addictive.