Originally Posted by daveb:
If S had just been started as a 1:64 scale modeling medium and Flyer had never existed there's be no resistance to S scale wheels and track standards. The Flyer connection is the fly in the soup, not the size of the flanges or the height of the rail....DaveB
S did start as a 1:64 scale modeling medium. Ed Packard's C-D Models (Cleveland) predates Gilbert S by several years.
A.C. Gilbert made it popular (almost...)
Rusty