Lone Star Toy Cap Gun ScrapbookThisWebsiteCopyright ©All Rights ReservedSee These Websites Within Nichols CapGuns:Get THE BOOK on the History of NicholsIndustriesPAGE 4 of4The following is from Geoffrey Ambridge, whosedad was one of the co-founders and wrote me.' Die CastingMachine Tools Ltd. (DCMT), as it became known, started out in 1939 as abusiness called: 'Toys and Houseware' situated in two large, understreet-level, lock-up garages beneath a petrol/gas filling station forecourt inGreen Lanes, Palmers Green, north London. After a couple of changes ofnondescript brand names before 1950/51, such as 'Slikka Toys' and 'DCMT', thefounder Directors finally decided on the name 'Lone Star Products' inspired by,and following the production of, their first 'Western' style cap pistol calledthe 'Lone Star' introduced in 1949 and which bore interior 'Slikka Toy'markings.