HELLO!
My name is Tony Walsham & I am the owner and founder of BELTROL RADIO CONTROL.
It has been more than 20 years since I ran my first international advertisement for radio control of model trains. The ad was on page # 53 in the July/August 1986 edition of the Narrow gauge and Short Line Gazette under my then Puffing Billy Models (PBM) label. It was run in co-operation with the late Graham Harris of Tempest Electronics.
Graham and I were among the pioneers of Radio Control (R/C) for model trains using regularly available low cost 2 stick digital proportional R/C such as Futaba® and Hi-Tec®.
A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then.
In 1988 Neil Dyson of Catnip and I developed a revolutionary method of memory momentum control that eliminated the "glitching" problems previously associated with low cost 2 stick AM R/C. There are still quite a number of those old designs still being used. Updated with microprocessor (µp) control, they are still being made today under the BELTROL R/C brand. Finally, after a short stint advertising under the banner of Five Star Models, I founded REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEMS (RCS) in Nov 1989.
In 1992 RCS invented the proprietary R/C system using a small cigarette pack sized transmitter handpiece. This system was for controlling track voltage and was first shown at the 1992 Nuremberg Toy Fair by the European agents of AristoCraft®. This display was kindly arranged by Mr Lewis Polk.
Later in 1995 Mr Polk came out with the AristoCraft Train Engineer® system.
In the meantime BELTROL R/C has re-engineered the previous EVO ESC to be the best control system using the new low cost SPEKTRUM® DX5E 2.4 GHz Digital Proportional R/C equipment.
The future looks rosy for BELTROL R/C.
Why? BELTROL R/C will continue introducing leading edge products, and because BELTROL R/C are innovators, not imitators.
BELTROL R/C invites you to have a look at all the new items that are being released with the publication of this new website.
A great big thank you, to all those people who have helped me over the years, and to my loyal customers.
Tony Walsham.
