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Re: Casting #34
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:50 pm
by GHOSTHUNTER
This was a genuine model railroad accessory and the story is it was made for the 'MARKLIN' model railway system and models were commercially purchased and converted, but when Lesney discontinued the model from the range, they were approached by the company doing the conversion to ask if they could buy the tooling from them to continue with the model.
- EHEIM VW Service Van.JPG (203.73 KiB) Viewed 1863 times
GHOSTHUNTER.
Re: Casting #34
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:53 pm
by GHOSTHUNTER
"Idris" has added to the story rather well and was compiling it while I was compiling mine, there you go, double the information...!
Ghosty.
Re: Casting #34
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:07 am
by Malibu
Hi,
thanks for the additional info to the Eheim VW-bus.
I always heard that Eheim build their own Tooling for the body after Lesney deleted model 34a.
That the tooling was sold by Lesney to Eheim is new to me.
Stephan
Re: Casting #34
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:22 pm
by Malibu
Hi,
I got additional info to the Draisine-Buses.
Brawa tooked over the production of the Eheim Bus.
In this time a new body was made.
On the pictures you can see the differences of the three models.
- (c) Malibu
- VW_Bully_Matchbox_Eheim_Brawa_1.JPG (63.39 KiB) Viewed 1826 times
- (c) Malibu
- VW_Bully_Matchbox_Eheim_Brawa.JPG (63.09 KiB) Viewed 1826 times
From left to right: Matchbox, Eheim, Brawa with silver roof.
- (c) Malibu
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- (c) Malibu
- VW_Bully_Eheim_Brawa.JPG (57.84 KiB) Viewed 1826 times
Compare Eheim - Brawa
Stephan