The Girard Model Works, was an early American toy manufacturing company.
[3][4] The Girard Model Works operated from the early 1920s to 1934, making various metal toys, vehicles and trains.
[7] As early as 1933, the Sears Wishbook shows the Joy Lines trains under the Marx moniker.
In 1934 Woods declared bankruptcy and Marx took ownership of the company at the court proceedings.
Louis Marx also continued making toys in this expanded Girard factory until 1972.