Maker record
Ribas
Ribas was a Barcelona maker of tinplate toy railway models. The Museu del Ferrocarril de Madrid identifies Ribas as the artisan who made a model of the Tren del Centenario in 1948. A surviving Ribas–Barcelona wagon listing also describes a tinplate, 0-gauge railway vehicle, placing Ribas among Spain’s postwar makers of toy trains.
- Founded
- 1947
- Final year
- 1952
- Locations
- Barcelona, Spain
- Founders
- Ribas
The story of Ribas
Ribas was one of the artisans in Barcelona producing tinplate 0 gauge trains. The Railway Museum in Madrid has an 0 gauge model of the so-called Tren del Centenario, made by Ribas, a tinsmith, in 1948 to commemorate the first train in Spain in 1848. Of this model, consisting of a 2-2-2 loco made of brass and wood, a tender and three coaches made of tinplate, probably only a few were made. The regular production of 0 gauge trains consisted of 4-wheel goods wagons made of tinplate, of which are known tankwagons lettered for Campsa and for Gas-Oil, flat wagons loaded with a jeep, a cannon and a search light, a covered wagon, a wagon with two wine barrels, stake cars loaded with timber and with logs and a wagon carrying a Pirelli cable drum. As for accessories, a level crossing is known.
How long Ribas made these wagons is unknown; according to a Spanish website, production was short, so ended probably in the early 1950s.