Hello Tinplate World ...Bing the largest toy manufacturer in the world 1910 era ...realized to get a bigger percentage of the American market ..one must produce American looking amd branded trains . Bing was not bashful about copying Ives it's biggest American competitor . 1911 -2 Bing expands to it's own New York Showroom and a huge warehouse for stocking several years of toys to fill the demands . WW1 ended most imports due to shipping ...but Bing had filled it's warehouse with as much stock as possible not to let American manufacturers pocket the green.
Post war Bing and other German manufactures had a hard time to work back into the toy market due to tariffs
and a stronger American base of manufacturing in their absence .
Here is a Bing 1 gauge American type engine ...closely patterned after the Ives 40 lines ...sold 1912-1916. Sears carried the Bing line in 1916
Cheers Carey
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