products model railways parent hornby plc website http www.hornbyinternational.com en 6 rivarossi rivarossi is one of the world s most famous italian manufacturer of model railways . citation needed in 2004 it was acquired by hornby railways . contents 1 history 2 united states 3 references 4 external links history edit rivarossi model of 2 6 6 6 rivarossi was founded in 1945 by alessandro rossi with a mr. riva . 1 in the 1990s rivarossi acquired lima 1992 jouef and arnold 1997 . in 2003 rivarossi went into receivership . in 2004 hornby railways plc acquired assets from rivarossi in particular the brands arnold jouef rivarossi and lima . since 2006 products are sold again under these brand names . the production has been moved to china . united states edit from 1957 rivarossi ho models were licensed and sold by lionel as lionel ho . the cooperation with lionel broke down over financial issues after only a year . from 1958 rivarossi products were sold through athearn . after athearn just about all rivarossi products and its sister company pocher were distributed through ahm associated hobby manufactures . 2 references edit giorgio giuliani meeting with alessandro rossi tr . by angelo s. giusti www.rivarossi memory.it . souter gerry and janet 2005 . lionel america s favorite toy trains motorbooks classic digitized by google books online . mbi . isbn 0 7603 1930 8 . retrieved 2008 01 18 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to rivarossi . rivarossi history this model rail related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rivarossi & oldid 742131894 categories model manufacturersmodel railroad manufacturerstoy train manufacturerscompanies established in 1945toy companies of italytoy brandshornby railwaysitalian brandsmodel rail stubshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2013commons category with local link same as on wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran aisitalianobasa jawanederlands portugu s edit links this page was last modified on 1 october 2016 at 21 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view