SC 13D/A 1 tlx51.txt SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 SCHEDULE 13D Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. 51) Trans-Lux Corporation (Name of Issuer) Common Stock, Par Value $1.00 Per Share (Title of Class of Securities) 893247106 (CUSIP Number) James E. McKee GAMCO Investors, Inc. One Corporate Center Rye, New York 10580-1435 (914) 921-5294 (Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications) December 12, 2006 (Date of Event which Requires Filing of this Statement) If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of Section 240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box. CUSIP No. 893247106 1 NAMES OF REPORTING PERSONS I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY) Gabelli Funds, LLC I.D. NO. 13-4044523 2 CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) (a) (b) 3 SEC USE ONLY 4 SOURCE OF FUNDS (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) 00-Funds of investment advisory clients 5 CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2 (d) OR 2 (e) 6 CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION New York NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH 7 SOLE VOTING POWER 631,300 (Item 5) 8 SHARED VOTING POWER NONE 9 SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER 631,300 (Item 5) 10 SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER NONE 11 AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON 631,300 (Item 5) 12 CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) 13 PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11) 42.23% 14 TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) IA CUSIP No. 893247106 1 NAMES OF REPORTING PERSONS I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY) GAMCO Asset Management Inc. I.D. NO. 13-4044521 2 CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) (a) (b) 3 SEC USE ONLY 4 SOURCE OF FUNDS (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) 00-Funds of investment advisory clients 5 CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2 (d) OR 2 (e) 6 CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION New York NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH 7 SOLE VOTING POWER 40,500 (Item 5) 8 SHARED VOTING POWER NONE 9 SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER 40,500 (Item 5) 10 SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER NONE 11 AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON 40,500 (Item 5) 12 CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) 13 PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11) 2.71% 14 TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) IA, CO CUSIP No. 893247106 1 NAMES OF REPORTING PERSONS I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY) GGCP, Inc. I.D. NO. 13-3056041 2 CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) (a) (b) 3 SEC USE ONLY 4 Source of funds (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) None 5 CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2 (d) OR 2 (e) 6 CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION New York NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH 7 SOLE VOTING POWER None 8 SHARED VOTING POWER NONE 9 SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER NONE 10 SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER NONE 11 AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON NONE 12 CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) X 13 PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11) NONE 14 TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) HC, CO CUSIP No. 893247106 1 NAMES OF REPORTING PERSONS I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY) GAMCO Investors, Inc. I.D. NO. 13-4007862 2 CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) (a) (b) 3 SEC USE ONLY 4 Source of funds (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) None 5 CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2 (d) OR 2 (e) 6 CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION New York NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH 7 SOLE VOTING POWER None 8 SHARED VOTING POWER NONE 9 SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER NONE 10 SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER NONE 11 AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON NONE 12 CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) X 13 PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11) 0.00% 14 TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) HC, CO CUSIP No. 893247106 1 NAMES OF REPORTING PERSONS I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY) Mario J. Gabelli 2 CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) (a) (b) 3 SEC USE ONLY 4 Source of funds (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) None 5 CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2 (d) OR 2 (e) 6 CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION USA NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH 7 SOLE VOTING POWER None 8 SHARED VOTING POWER NONE 9 SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER NONE 10 SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER NONE 11 AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON NONE 12 CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) X 13 PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11) 0.00% 14 TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON (SEE INSTRUCTIONS) IN Item 1. Security and Issuer This Amendment No. 51 to Schedule 13D on the Common Stock of Trans- Lux Corporation (the "Issuer") is being filed on behalf of the undersigned to amend the Schedule 13D, as amended (the "Schedule 13D") which was originally filed on May 5, 1992. Unless otherwise indicated, all capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the same meanings as set forth in the Schedule 13D. Item 2. Identity and Background This statement is being filed by Mario J. Gabelli ("Mario Gabelli") and various entities which he directly or indirectly controls or for which he acts as chief investment officer. These entities, except for Lynch Interactive Corporation ("Interactive"), engage in various aspects of the securities business, primarily as investment adviser to various institutional and individual clients, including registered investment companies and pension plans, and as general partner of various private investment partnerships. Certain of these entities may also make investments for their own accounts. The foregoing persons in the aggregate often own beneficially more than 5% of a class of a particular issuer. Although several of the foregoing persons are treated as institutional investors for purposes of reporting their beneficial ownership on the short-form Schedule 13G, the holdings of those who do not qualify as institutional investors may exceed the 1% threshold presented for filing on Schedule 13G or implementation of their investment philosophy may from time to time require action which could be viewed as not completely passive. In order to avoid any question as to whether their beneficial ownership is being reported on the proper form and in order to provide greater investment flexibility and administrative uniformity, these persons have decided to file their beneficial ownership reports on the more detailed Schedule 13D form rather than on the short-form Schedule 13G and thereby to provide more expansive disclosure than may be necessary. (a), (b) and (c) - This statement is being filed by one or more of the following persons: GGCP, Inc. formerly known as Gabelli Group Capital Partners, Inc. ("GGCP"), GAMCO Investors, Inc. formerly known as Gabelli Asset Management Inc. ("GBL"), Gabelli Funds, LLC ("Gabelli Funds"), GAMCO Asset Management Inc. formerly known as GAMCO Investors, Inc. ("GAMCO"), Gabelli Advisers, Inc. ("Gabelli Advisers"), Gabelli Securities, Inc. ("GSI"), Gabelli & Company, Inc. ("Gabelli & Company"), MJG Associates, Inc. ("MJG Associates"), Gabelli Foundation, Inc. ("Foundation"), Mario Gabelli, and Interactive. Those of the foregoing persons signing this Schedule 13D are hereafter referred to as the "Reporting Persons". GGCP makes investments for its own account and is the parent company of GBL. GBL, a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is the parent company for a variety of companies engaged in the securities business, including those named below. GAMCO, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GBL, is an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended ("Advisers Act"). GAMCO is an investment manager providing discretionary managed account services for employee benefit plans, private investors, endowments, foundations and others. GSI, a majority-owned subsidiary of GBL, is an investment adviser registered under the Advisers Act and serves as a general partner or investment manager to limited partnerships and offshore investment companies. As a part of its business, GSI may purchase or sell securities for its own account. It is the immediate parent of Gabelli & Company. GSI is the Investment Manager of Gabelli Associates Fund, Gabelli Associates Fund II, Gabelli Associates Limited, ALCE Partners, L.P., and Gabelli Multimedia Partners, L.P. GSI and Marc Gabelli own 45% and 55%, respectively, of Gabelli Securities International Limited ("GSIL"). GSIL provides investment advisory services to offshore funds and accounts. GSIL is an investment advisor of Gabelli International Gold Fund Limited, Gabelli European Partners, Ltd., and Gabelli Global Partners, Ltd. Gabelli & Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GSI, is a broker- dealer registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended ("1934 Act"), which as a part of its business regularly purchases and sells securities for its own account. Gabelli Funds, a wholly owned subsidiary of GBL, is a limited liability company. Gabelli Funds is an investment adviser registered under the Advisers Act which presently provides discretionary managed account services for The Gabelli Equity Trust Inc., The Gabelli Asset Fund, The Gabelli Growth Fund, The Gabelli Convertible and Income Securities Fund, Inc., The Gabelli Value Fund Inc., The Gabelli Small Cap Growth Fund, The Gabelli Equity Income Fund, The Gabelli ABC Fund, The Gabelli Global Telecommunications Fund, Gabelli Gold Fund, Inc., The Gabelli Global Multimedia Trust Inc., The Gabelli Global Convertible Securities Fund, Gabelli Capital Asset Fund, Gabelli International Growth Fund, Inc., The Gabelli Global Growth Fund, The Gabelli Utility Trust, The Gabelli Global Opportunity Fund, The Gabelli Utilities Fund, The Gabelli Blue Chip Value Fund, The Gabelli Mathers Fund, The Gabelli Woodland Small Cap Value Fund, The Comstock Capital Value Fund, The Comstock Strategy Fund, The Gabelli Dividend and Income Trust, The Gabelli Global Utility & Income Trust, The Gabelli Global Gold, Natural Resources, & Income Trust (collectively, the "Funds"), which are registered investment companies. Gabelli Advisers, a subsidiary of GBL, is an investment adviser which provides discretionary advisory services to The Gabelli Westwood Mighty Mitessm Fund. MJG Associates provides advisory services to private investment partnerships and offshore funds. Mario Gabelli is the sole shareholder, director and employee of MJG Associates. MJG Associates is the Investment Manager of Gabelli International Limited, Gabelli International II Limited, Gabelli Performance Partnership, and Gabelli Fund, LDC. The Foundation is a private foundation. Mario Gabelli is the President, a Trustee and the Investment Manager of the Foundation. Interactive is a holding company with operating subsidiaries engaged primarily in the rural telephone industry. Interactive actively pursues new business ventures and acquisitions. Interactive makes investments in marketable securities to preserve capital and maintain liquidity for financing their business activities and acquisitions and are not engaged in the business of investing, reinvesting, or trading in securities. Mario J. Gabelli is a director, and substantial shareholder of Interactive. Mario Gabelli is the majority stockholder and Chief Executive Officer of GGCP and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GBL. GGCP is the majority shareholder of GBL. GBL, in turn, is the sole stockholder of GAMCO. GBL is also the majority stockholder of GSI and the largest shareholder of Gabelli Advisers. Gabelli & Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GSI. The Reporting Persons do not admit that they constitute a group. GGCP, GBL, GAMCO, and Gabelli & Company are New York corporations and GSI and Gabelli Advisers are Delaware corporations, each having its principal business office at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580. Gabelli Funds is a New York limited liability company having its principal business office at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580. MJG Associates is a Connecticut corporation having its principal business office at 140 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830. The Foundation is a Nevada corporation having its principal offices at 165 West Liberty Street, Reno, Nevada 89501. Interactive is a Delaware corporation having its principal place of business at 401 Theodore Fremd Avenue, Rye, New York 10580. For information required by instruction C to Schedule 13D with respect to the executive officers and directors of the foregoing entities and other related persons (collectively, "Covered Persons"), reference is made to Schedule I annexed hereto and incorporated herein by reference. (f) - Reference is made to Schedule I hereto. Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration Item 3 to Schedule 13D is amended, in pertinent part, as follows: The Reporting Persons used an aggregate of approximately $1,047,545 to purchase the additional Securities reported as beneficially owned in Item 5 since the most recent filing on Schedule 13D. GAMCO and Gabelli Funds used approximately $6,740 and $1,040,805, respectively, of funds that were provided through the accounts of certain of their investment advisory clients (and, in the case of some of such accounts at GAMCO, may be through borrowings from client margin accounts) in order to purchase the additional Securities for such clients. Item 5. Interest In Securities Of The Issuer Item 5 to Schedule 13D is amended, in pertinent part, as follows: (a) The aggregate number and percentage of Securities to which this Schedule 13D relates is 671,800 shares, representing 44.94% of the 1,494,898 shares outstanding. This latter number of shares is arrived at by adding the number of shares reported as being outstanding in the Issuer's most recently Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2006 (973,598 shares) to the number of shares which would be receivable by the Reporting Persons if they were to convert all of the Issuer's 8.25% Convertible Notes held by them into the common stock of the Issuer (521,300 shares). However, at current market prices it would be uneconomic to convert any of such Convertible Notes and substantially all such Convertible Notes and not just those held by the Reporting Persons would be converted if it became economic to do so. Accordingly, the Reporting Persons believe that the percentage of beneficial ownership attributable to them under the rules of the SEC is artificially high and that a more realistic percentage of their aggregate economic interest, which does take into account the conversion of such Convertible Notes, would be 15.26%. The Reporting Persons beneficially own the Securities as follows: Name Shares of Common Stock % of Class of Common Shares of Common Plus Convertible Notes Converted % of Common Plus Convertible Notes Converted GAMCO 30,500 3.13% 40,500 2.71% Gabelli Funds 120,000 12.33% 631,300 42.23% Mario Gabelli is deemed to have beneficial ownership of the Securities owned beneficially by each of the foregoing persons. GSI is deemed to have beneficial ownership of the Securities beneficially owned by Gabelli & Company. GBL and GGCP are deemed to have beneficial ownership of the Securities owned beneficially by each of the foregoing persons other than Mario Gabelli and the Foundation. (b) Each of the Reporting Persons and Covered Persons has the sole power to vote or direct the vote and sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of the Securities reported for it, either for its own benefit or for the benefit of its investment clients or its partners, as the case may be, except that (i) Gabelli Funds has sole dispositive and voting power with respect to the shares of the Issuer held by the Funds so long as the aggregate voting interest of all joint filers does not exceed 25% of their total voting interest in the Issuer and, in that event, the Proxy Voting Committee of each Fund shall respectively vote that Fund's shares, (ii) at any time, the Proxy Voting Committee of each such Fund may take and exercise in its sole discretion the entire voting power with respect to the shares held by such fund under special circumstances such as regulatory considerations, and (iii) the power of Mario Gabelli, GBL, and GGCP is indirect with respect to Securities beneficially owned directly by other Reporting Persons. (c) Information with respect to all transactions in the Securities which were effected during the past sixty days or since the most recent filing on Schedule 13D, whichever is less, by each of the Reporting Persons and Covered Persons is set forth on Schedule II annexed hereto and incorporated herein by reference. (e) Not applicable. Signature After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct. Dated: December 19, 2006 MARIO J. GABELLI GGCP, INC. By:/s/ James E. McKee James E. McKee Attorney-in-Fact GABELLI FUNDS, LLC GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. By:/s/ James E. McKee James E. McKee Secretary GAMCO ASSET MANAGEMENT INC. By:/s/ Douglas R. Jamieson Douglas R. Jamieson President and Chief Operating Officer SCHEDULE I Information with Respect to Executive Officers and Directors of the Undersigned Schedule I to Schedule 13D is amended, in pertinent part, as follows: The following sets forth as to each of the executive officers and directors of the undersigned: his name; his business address; his present principal occupation or employment and the name, principal business and address of any corporation or other organization in which such employment is conducted. Unless otherwise specified, the principal employer of each such individual is GAMCO Asset Management, Inc., Gabelli Funds, LLC, Gabelli & Company, Inc., or GAMCO Investors, Inc., the business address of each of which is One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580, and each such individual identified below is a citizen of the United States. To the knowledge of the undersigned, during the last five years, no such person has been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors), and no such person was a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction as a result of which he was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state securities law or finding any violation with respect to such laws except as reported in Item 2(d) of this Schedule 13D. GGCP, Inc. Directors: Vincent J. Amabile Mario J. Gabelli Business Consultant Chief Executive Officer of GGCP, Inc., and GAMCO Investors, Inc.; Director/Trustee of all registered investment companies advised by Gabelli Funds, LLC; Chief Executive Officer of Lynch Interactive Corporation. Marc J. Gabelli Chairman of Lynch Corporation Matthew R. Gabelli Vice President - Trading Gabelli & Company, Inc. One Corporate Center Rye, New York 10580 Charles C. Baum Douglas R. Jamieson Secretary & Treasurer United Holdings Co., Inc. 2545 Wilkens Avenue Baltimore, MD 21223 See below Joseph R. Rindler, Jr. Business Consultant/former Chairman of GAMCO Asset Management Inc. Fredric V. Salerno Chairman; Former Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer Verizon Communications Officers: Mario J. Gabelli Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer Henry Kiernan Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary GAMCO Investors, Inc. Directors: Edwin L. Artzt Richard L. Bready Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Procter & Gamble Company 900 Adams Crossing Cincinnati, OH 45202 Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Nortek, Inc. 50 Kennedy Plaza Providence, RI 02903 Mario J. Gabelli John D. Gabelli See above Senior Vice President John C. Ferrara See below Karl Otto Pohl (1) Robert S. Prather Vincent S. Tese Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. Bockenheimer Landstrasse 20 D-6000 FRANKFURT AM MAIN Germany President & Chief Operating Officer Gray Television, Inc. 4370 Peachtree Road, NE Atlanta, GA 30319 Lawyer, Investment Adviser and Cable Television Executive c/o Bear Stearns & Company, Inc. 245 Park Avenue, 19th Floor New York, NY 10167 Officers: Mario J. Gabelli Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Douglas R. Jamieson Henry G. Van der Eb John C. Ferrara President and Chief Operating Officer Senior Vice President Interim Chief Financial Officer James E. McKee Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary GAMCO Asset Management Inc. Directors: Douglas R. Jamieson Regina M. Pitaro F. William Scholz, II William S. Selby Officers: Mario J. Gabelli Chief Investment Officer - Value Portfolios Douglas R. Jamieson President and Chief Operating Officer Gabelli Funds, LLC Officers: Mario J. Gabelli Chief Investment Officer - Value Portfolios Bruce N. Alpert Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer James E. McKee Secretary Gabelli Advisers, Inc. Directors: Bruce N. Alpert Douglas R. Jamieson See above See above Officers: Bruce N. Alpert Chief Operating Officer James E. McKee Secretary Gabelli Securities, Inc. Directors: Robert W. Blake President of W. R. Blake & Sons, Inc. 196-20 Northern Boulevard Flushing, NY 11358 Douglas G. DeVivo General Partner of ALCE Partners, L.P. One First Street, Suite 16 Los Altos, CA 94022 Douglas R. Jamieson F. William Scholz, II President and Chief Operating Officer See above Officers: Douglas R. Jamieson James E. McKee Kieran Caterina See above Assistant Secretary Chief Financial Officer Gabelli & Company, Inc. Directors: James G. Webster, III Chairman & Interim President Irene Smolicz Senior Trader Gabelli & Company, Inc. Officers: James G. Webster, III Chairman & Interim President Bruce N. Alpert Vice President - Mutual Funds James E. McKee Secretary Lynch Interactive Corporation, 401 Theodore Fremd Avenue Rye, NY 10580 Directors: Mario J. Gabelli See above - GGCP, Inc. Glenn Angelillo P.O. Box 128 New Canaan, CT 06840 Alfred W. Fiore The Ross Companies 1270 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020-1703 Salvatore Muoio Principal S. Muoio & Co., LLC Suite 406 509 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10022 Lawrence R. Moats Moats Office & Properties, Inc. 100 West Palatine Road, Ste. L30 P.O. Box 1189 Palatine, IL 60078-1189 Gary L. Sugarman Chief Executive Officer Richfield Associates 400 Andrews Street Rochester, NY 14604 Officers: Mario J. Gabelli Chairman Robert E. Dolan Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer John A. Cole Vice President, Corporate Development Secretary and General Counsel (1) Citizen of Germany