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News column - 19
Briefly noted at press time...
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Lawrence Dale Edwards 1921-2014
Dale Edwards, co-founder of Kadee Quality Products, passed
away September 19, 2014. He was 93 years old.
Dale, and his twin brother Keith, launched their company in
1940 with a small selection of HO turnout kits. Using the first
initials of their names, they called their new enterprise Kadee.
Operations were temporarily halted during WWII while the
brothers served in the U. S. Army Air Corps.
Machinists by trade, the Edwards brothers began working
on an operating HO scale coupler that looked like the real
thing. At the time, there was nothing on the market that by
any stretch looked or functioned like a prototype coupler. In
the early 1950s they developed an HO metal coupler with a
working knuckle that rapidly became the de facto standard for
MRH-Oct 2014
