At the time of writing Volume 1 of The Rovex Story - ‘Tri-ang Railways’, I had had little contact with South Africa and the only information I received came through a die-cast collector who kindly made enquiries for me. Since then I have been contacted by two Tri-ang collectors in the Republic and, at last, information is emerging about the elusive South African made models.

This confirms that only two sets were made, both powered by the Baltic tank; one with three TC freight cars and the other with two short silver TC passenger cars. These sets were numbered R.SX.A for the passenger set and R.SX.B for the goods set. The illustration on the box lid was the same as that shown for the New Zealand sets illustrated on page 111 of Volume 1 of The Rovex Story and we now know that the South African boxes were supplied by Felco of Durban.

It had also been assumed that the only track made in South Africa was that used in the sets but it has now been revealed that a further item was made there. If one thinks what would be the most useful item after the curves and straights that make up the oval supplied in the set, the answer should be obvious. It was, of course, the point and both left and right hand versions were made at the Natal factory from tools supplied from the UK.