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Rico (Spain)

Rico - Rico electric train sets,

Rico

The Paya family, located in Ibi (province of Alicante, Spain), manufactured small sheet metal toys in a traditional way and sells on the street markets many products for adults as plates, goblets, showers, lamps and other miniatures for children from 1905. Four PAYƁ HERMANOS former employees founded an another tinware company in 1910, and the doll maker Santiago Molina Rico joined them in 1919 before taking control of this compagny in 1922 and giving the name RICO, SA to the compagny. In the 1930s, it was a real golden age in the manufacture of tinplate toys. Paya and Rico have been competing with different models, especially in means of locomotion (boats, trains, cars, planes). In the 1950s, there was a decline due to the low demand and lack of raw materials for tinplate toys, but in meantime, this is the era of the appearance of the plastic toy. Its splendor, like that of most Spanish toy manufacturers, coincides with the 1970s and early 1980s. Under the influence of video games, Rico introduced to the market very sophisticated products for the time with high prices.
High prices, the oil crisis of the late 1970s, the overcrowding of staff, the emergence of supermarkets will lead to the closure of Rico in 1984.

The collaboration with the Le Jouet Français group began in the 1970s. Rico put on the Spanish market some electric train sets manufactured by Jouef in Ireland around 1980-81.

Rico electric train sets

Rico electric train sets
nopict2.202Tren Jouef 1- 1 Diesel locomotive BB 4000 RENFE ;
- 4 passenger coaches RENFE,
- 12 curved track sections R=385 mm, 10 straight track sections,
- 1 washing coach station,
- 1 transformer ref. 9200.
Rico : cat. 1980.
nopict2.211Tren Jouef 2- 1 Diesel locomotive BB 4000 RENFE,
- 9 freight wagons,
- 12 curved track sections R=385 mm, 10 straight track sections,
- 1 manual level crossing, 1 manual semaphore, 1 manual crane,
- 1 transformer ref. 9200.
Rico : cat. 1980.
nopict2.251Tren Rico 1- 1 Diesel locomotive BB 4000 RENFE,
- 3 passenger coaches RENFE,
- 12 curved track sections R=385 mm, 4 straight track sections,
- 1 transformer ref. 9200.
Rico : cat. 1980.
nopict2.252Tren Rico 2- 1 Diesel locomotive BB 4000 RENFE,
- 5 freight wagons,
- 12 curved track sections R=385 mm, 4 straight track sections,
- 1 transformer ref. 9200.
Rico : cat. 1980.

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