The parent company of “Lone Star” was Die Casting Machine Tools Ltd. of Palmers Green, London, established in 1939. As for the rolling stock, again Lone Star produced both British and American models, much like Tri-ang. For further information on Lone Star history and products, I recommend The Great Book of Lone Star by the late Geoffrey Ambridge, the son of one of the company’s founders. The Lone Star Model Train Reference Guide is a three-volume tome by Donald Troost, a collector from the Netherlands, which is a handy guide for the Lone Star collector. He had a Lone Star display which also included a “digitally” controlled Lone Star push-along layout, where the operators just pushed their trains along the track, often with an ear-to-ear smile.