engine, tender, two cars and caboose...26, The Mantua Toy and Metal Products Company is founded by John N. Tyler, James P. Thomas, and Pauline B. Tyler. Mantua's first project was to produce Triple-T Electrical Toys of Distinction. The Woodbury Heights, New Jersey Mantua factory began making items for the first time in 1933. In 1935, Mantua introduced O-scale products. Mantua offers "Ready-Laid Track" and ready-to-run train sets in 1937. At the close of World War II, Manuta received the Army-Navy "E" Award for the company's excellence in the production of wartime equipment. Manuta made mapping and measuring instruments for the Allied troops. The name TYCO appears for the first time in 1952. TYCO's first offerings in the early 1950s were a line of ready-to-run train sets. The name TYCO comes from Tyler Manufacturing Company. HO-scale slot car sets first appear under the TYCO name in 1963.