Editing Jouef (section)

==History==
Manufacturer Georges Huard founded Jouef in 1944 toward the end of [[World War II]]. The traditional home of the company was in [[Champagnole]], France. In the early 1950s, as with many manufacturers, the company abandoned the use of lithographed tinplate for trains in favour of plastic injection moulding.

In 1979, Jouef opened a factory in Limerick, Ireland, but the ill-fated venture closed in 1981.  In 2001, Jouef was subsumed by the Italian [[Lima (models)|Lima]].  After Lima shut down in January 2004, the Jouef brand was acquired a few months later by [[Hornby Railways]].{{r|Tran2004}}